Evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet: new understanding and challenges

• Main Authors: Payne, AJ, Hunt, JCR, Wingham, DJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ROYAL SOCIETY 2006
• Subjects: Antarctica; climate change; glaciology; satellites; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; SEA-LEVEL RISE; WEST ANTARCTICA; MASS-BALANCE; STREAM; DISCHARGE; OCEAN; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; International Polar Year; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/125982/

This brief paper has two purposes. First, we gauge developments in the study of the Antarctic ice sheet over the last seven years by comparing the contents of this issue with the volume produced from an American Geophysical Union meeting, held in September 1998, on the West Antarctic ice sheet. We f...