Observations of Buried Lake Drainage on the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Between 1992 and 2017, the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) lost ice equivalent to 7.6 ± 3.9 mm of sea level rise. AIS mass loss is mitigated by ice shelves that provide a buttress by regulating ice flow from tributary glaciers. However, ice-shelf stability is threatened by meltwater ponding, which may ini...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2020
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Online Access: | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/314848 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.61954 |