Twenty-first-century warming of a large Antarctic ice-shelf cavity by a redirected coastal current

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7397, 2012, Pages 225-228

  Hellmer, Hartmut H ^a   Kauker, Frank ^a,b   Timmermann, Ralph ^a   Determann, Jürgen ^a   Rae, Jamie ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b OASys   (Germany)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER; ICE;

BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL CURRENT; ICE SHELF; MASS BALANCE; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA; SEASHORE; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84860748493     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11064     Document Type: Letter

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