The prescience of paleoclimatology and the future of the Antarctic ice sheet

The emerging view that the West Antarctic ice sheet is in the early stage of collapse owes as much to paleoclimatology as to contemporary observations.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Steig, Eric J., Neff, Peter D.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048159/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013232
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05001-1
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Summary:The emerging view that the West Antarctic ice sheet is in the early stage of collapse owes as much to paleoclimatology as to contemporary observations.