Characteristics of the Ross and Southern McMurdo ice shelves as revealed from ground-based radar surveys.
Ice shelves are an important component of the Antarctic Ice Sheet as they indirectly control sea level rise by regulating mass flux into the ocean. The coupling of ice shelves with the ocean and the atmosphere makes them vulnerable to climate change. With the oceans absorbing most of the energy from...
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University of Canterbury
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13464 https://doi.org/10.26021/6284 |