Is Antarctica melting?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 324-331

  Rignot, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE CONTROL; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RECENT PROGRESS; SEA LEVEL RISE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WARMING CLIMATE;

ICE;

EID: 79961221877     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.110     Document Type: Article

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