Mountain glaciers and ice caps around Antarctica make a large sea-level rise contribution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Hock, Regine ^a,b   De Woul, Mattias ^c   Radic, Valentina ^a,d   Dyurgerov, Mark ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; ICE-CAPS; ICELAND; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MASS LOSS; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; PATAGONIA; SEA LEVEL RISE; SURFACE MASS; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

ASTROPHYSICS; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIER; ICE CAP; MASS BALANCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WARMING;

ALASKA; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; PATAGONIA; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 67449164074     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037020     Document Type: Article

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