West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse - The fall and rise of a paradigm

Climatic Change

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 65-79

  Vaughan, David G ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PUBLIC POLICY; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

AMUNDSEN SEAS; ANTARCTIC ICES; ANTARCTICA; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; DEGLACIATION; ECONOMIC; FEEDBACKS]; GREEN MOVEMENTS; ICE SHEETS; ICE STREAMS; IMMINENT THREATS; LARGE PARTS; SOCIAL IMPACTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLACIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE SHEET; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 54949158546     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9448-3     Document Type: Article

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