Warming ocean erodes ice sheets

Antarctic ice sheets are a key player in sea-level rise in a warming climate. Now an ice-sheet modelling studyclearly demonstrates that an Antarctic ice sheet/shelf system in the Atlantic Ocean will be regulated by thewarming of the surrounding Southern Ocean, not by marine-ice-sheet instability.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Climate Change
Main Author: Kusahara, K
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Subjects:
Earth Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences
Climate Change Processes
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2900
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/109887
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Summary:Antarctic ice sheets are a key player in sea-level rise in a warming climate. Now an ice-sheet modelling studyclearly demonstrates that an Antarctic ice sheet/shelf system in the Atlantic Ocean will be regulated by thewarming of the surrounding Southern Ocean, not by marine-ice-sheet instability.

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