Future of the West Antarctic ice sheet

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5388, 1998, Pages 428-429

  Bindschadler, Robert ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ANTARCTICA; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0032538395     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5388.428     Document Type: Short Survey

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15. Other compensating effects, not considered here, include velocity and width changes that would either increase mass inflow or decrease mass outflow.
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