An Assessment of Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics from a Pliocene Polar Paleoclimate Archive

• Main Author: Hansen, Melissa A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Montclair State University Digital Commons 2016
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/32; https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/context/etd/article/1031/viewcontent/Hansen_20Melissa_20Dissertation_20FINAL_20163_Redacted.pdf

The potential impact of East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) response to warming over the next century is of major concern, particularly due to its influence on sea level rise. Efforts to understand its impact are limited due to the restrictions of short-term modeling, as well as the assumption that all...