Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet after local destabilization of the Amundsen Basin
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, and playing a more important role in terms of global sea-level rise. The Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica has most likely been destabilized. Although previous numerical modeling studies examined the short-term future evolution of...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
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| Language: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2015
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655561/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26578762 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512482112 |