Substantial contribution to sea-level rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6778, 2000, Pages 591-594

  Cuffey, Kurt M ^a   Marshall, Shawn J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ICE SHEET; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MELTING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GAS; GREENLAND; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0034611671     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35007053     Document Type: Article

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