West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse – the fall and rise of a paradigm
It is now almost 30 years since John Mercer (1978) first presented the idea that climate change could eventually cause a rapid deglaciation, or “collapse”, of a large part of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), raising world sea levels by 5 metres and causing untold economic and social impacts. Thi...
| Published in: | Climatic Change |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2008
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| Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/769/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/769/1/The_return_of_a_paradigm_16_-_nora.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-008-9448-3 |