Widespread persistent thickening of the east antarctic ice sheet by freezing from the base

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6024, 2011, Pages 1592-1595

  Bell, Robin E ^a   Ferraccioli, Fausto ^b   Creyts, Timothy T ^a   Braaten, David ^c   Corr, Hugh ^b   Das, Indrani ^a   Damaske, Detlef ^d   Frearson, Nicholas ^a   Jordan, Thomas ^b   Rose, Kathryn ^b   Studinger, Michael ^e   Wolovick, Michael ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

COOLING; CRYOSPHERE; DOME; FREEZING; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; PALEOCLIMATE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CONDUCTANCE; COOLING; FLOW KINETICS; FREEZING; ICE SHEET; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79953164164     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1200109     Document Type: Article

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14. We acknowledge the seven nations involved in the AGAP International Polar Year effort for their logistical, financial, and intellectual support. Specifically, the U.S. Antarctic Program of NSF provided support for the logistics, the development of the instrumentation, and the analysis of the data. The Natural Environment Research Council/British Antarctic Survey provided extensive support for deep-field logistics, data collection, and analysis. The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Resources, Germany, and the Polar Research Institute of China provided invaluable support to the program. C. Finn, Gwenn Flowers, M. Fahnestock, and Slawek Tulaczyk provided early reviews of the work. H. Abdi provided technical support in developing the figures.