Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough
Glaciers which drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) into the Amundsen Sea are accelerating and thinning rapidly. These observations have been attributed to the regional oceanography whereby heat contained within Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) drives the basal melting of floating glaciers. On the...
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Published in: | Geophysical Research Letters |
Main Authors: |
Walker, D.P.,
Brandon, M.A.,
Jenkins, A.,
Allen, J.T.,
Dowdeswell, J.A.,
Evans, J. |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper
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Language: | unknown |
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2007
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Online Access: | https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/49238/
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