Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modelling

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 106-110

  Rignot, Eric ^a,b,c   Bamber, Jonathan L ^d   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^e   Davis, Curt ^f   Li, Yonghong ^f   Van De Berg, Willem Jan ^e   Van Meijgaard, Erik ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^g ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

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EID: 47149093060     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo102     Document Type: Article

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