Representing grounding-line dynamics in Antarctic ice-sheet models

• Main Author: Docquier, David
• Other Authors: Pattyn, Frank, Tison, Jean-Louis, Hindmarsh, Richard, Luparia, Andrea, Hanson, Kael
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2013
• Subjects: Sciences de la terre et du cosmos; Sciences exactes et naturelles; Glaciology > Antarctica; Glaciers > Antarctica; Glaciologie > Antarctique; Glaciers > Antarctique; Transient/Transitoire; Intercomparison/Intercomparaison; Glaciology/Glaciologie; Modeling/Modélisation; Antarctic; West Antarctica; Greenland; Thwaites Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctique*; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209400; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/209400/4/c5d80d42-5e4c-48e6-9214-94a54c73efd0.txt; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/209400/1/d543c168-8dd6-49af-9f13-fabc12937e89.txt

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