Modelling West Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth and Collapse through the Past Five Million Years
The West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), with ice volume equivalent to 5 m of sea level1, has long been considered capable of past and future catastrophic collapse2, 3, 4. Today, the ice sheet is fringed by vulnerable floating ice shelves that buttress the fast flow of inland ice streams. Grounding line...
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| Online Access: | https://works.bepress.com/robert_deconto/3 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7236/full/nature07809.html |