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.
Published in: | Nature Climate Change |
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Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2900 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/109887 |
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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