Antarctic Ice Sheet melting in the southeast Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 957-960

  Jacobs, Stanley S ^a   Hellmer, Hartmut H ^a   Jenkins, Adrian ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; MELTING; SEA ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; OCEANOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS; PACIFIC SECTOR; PINE ISLAND GLACIERS; PRIOR ESTIMATES; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SURFACE ACCUMULATION;

ICE; SEA ICE;

BASAL MELTING; ICE CAPS; ICE MELTING; SALT BOX MODEL; BALANCE; ICE MELT; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE SHELVES;

PACIFIC, (SOUTHEAST); ANTARCTICA, PINE ISLAND BAY; SOUTHERN OCEAN, PACIFIC SECTOR;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; BASAL MELTING; CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER; ICE BALANCE; ICEBERG CALVING; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; SALT BOX MODEL; SUB ICE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0029664217     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00723     Document Type: Article

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