West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative. Volume 2: Discipline Reviews

Seven discipline review papers are presented on the state of the knowledge of West Antarctica and opinions on how that knowledge must be increased to predict the future behavior of this ice sheet and to assess its potential to collapse, rapidly raising the global sea level. These are the goals of th...

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Main Author: Bindschadler, Robert A.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1991
Subjects:
GEOSCIENCES (GENERAL)
Antarctic
West Antarctica
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19910017259
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Summary:Seven discipline review papers are presented on the state of the knowledge of West Antarctica and opinions on how that knowledge must be increased to predict the future behavior of this ice sheet and to assess its potential to collapse, rapidly raising the global sea level. These are the goals of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative (WAIS).

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