Glacier-surge mechanisms promoted by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback to summer melt
Mass loss from glaciers and ice sheets currently accounts for two-thirds of the observed global sea-level rise and has accelerated since the 1990s, coincident with strong atmospheric warming in the polar regions. Here we present continuous GPS measurements and satellite synthetic-aperture-radar-base...
Published in: | The Cryosphere |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2015
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-197-2015 https://doaj.org/article/b9db90db649046478e06504d81296b8e |