Channelized melting drives thinning under a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Gourmelen, Noel, Goldberg, Dan N., Snow, Kate, Henley, Sian F., Bingham, Robert G., Kimura, Satoshi, Hogg, Anna E., Shepherd, Andrew, Mouginot, Jeremie, Lenaerts, Jan T. M., Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M., van de Berg, Willem Jan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; Dotson Ice Shelf; Long Channel; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518096/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518096/1/Gourmelen_et_al-2017-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074929

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