Recent dramatic thinning of largest West Antarctic ice stream triggered by oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Payne, Antony J ^a   Vieli, Andreas ^a   Shepherd, Andrew P ^b   Wingham, Duncan J ^c   Rignot, Eric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

1827 Hydrology: Glaciology (1863); 3210 Mathematical Geophysics: Modeling; 9310 Information Related to Geographic Region: Antarctica

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEA LEVEL;

GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; ICE-FLOW MODELS; PINE ISLAND GLACIER (PIG); WEST ANTARTIC ICE SHEET (WAIS);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 16644400679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021284     Document Type: Article

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