Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment
Amundsen Sea Embayment: Tectonic and Climatic Evolution; Granada, Spain, 9 September 2009; Geoscientists working on the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica met at a workshop during the First Antarctic Climate Evolution Symposium to discuss recent advances from, and future priorities for,...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:10560 2023-05-15T13:23:36+02:00 Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment Larter, Robert D. Gohl, Karsten Bentley, Michael J. 2010 http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10560/ unknown American Geophysical Union Larter, Robert D. orcid:0000-0002-8414-7389 Gohl, Karsten; Bentley, Michael J. 2010 Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment. Eos. Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 91 (4). 33. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010EO040006 <https://doi.org/10.1029/2010EO040006> Meteorology and Climatology Glaciology Earth Sciences Publication - Article NonPeerReviewed 2010 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1029/2010EO040006 2023-02-04T19:26:49Z Amundsen Sea Embayment: Tectonic and Climatic Evolution; Granada, Spain, 9 September 2009; Geoscientists working on the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica met at a workshop during the First Antarctic Climate Evolution Symposium to discuss recent advances from, and future priorities for, work in this region. The ASE is the most rapidly changing sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and contains enough ice to raise sea level by 1.2 meters. Ice sheet modeling studies suggest that this sector of the WAIS is potentially unstable. Considerable efforts have been made through several national Antarctic programs to acquire new data on the geological structure, subglacial topography, bathymetry, and glacial history of this remote region. These data are important for establishing boundary conditions for ice sheet modeling, for providing constraints on past ice sheet changes that can be used to test models, and for putting recent changes into a longer-term context. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet West Antarctica Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Amundsen Sea Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet West Antarctica Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 91 4 33 33 |
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Amundsen Sea Embayment: Tectonic and Climatic Evolution; Granada, Spain, 9 September 2009; Geoscientists working on the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica met at a workshop during the First Antarctic Climate Evolution Symposium to discuss recent advances from, and future priorities for, work in this region. The ASE is the most rapidly changing sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and contains enough ice to raise sea level by 1.2 meters. Ice sheet modeling studies suggest that this sector of the WAIS is potentially unstable. Considerable efforts have been made through several national Antarctic programs to acquire new data on the geological structure, subglacial topography, bathymetry, and glacial history of this remote region. These data are important for establishing boundary conditions for ice sheet modeling, for providing constraints on past ice sheet changes that can be used to test models, and for putting recent changes into a longer-term context. |
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Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
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Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
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Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
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Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
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Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
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improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the amundsen sea embayment |
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