Basal melting and freezing of the Ross Ice Shelf

Antarctica’s ice sheets don’t end at the coast, they extend onto the sea around the continent as ice shelves where they buttress the ice sheets from accelerating. These ice shelves are where most glaciological mass of the Antarctic continent is lost through calving and basal melting. But processes b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snodgrass, Joe
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/18583