Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1561-1576

  Gillet Chaulet, F ^a   Gagliardini, O ^a,b   Seddik, H ^c   Nodet, M ^d   Durand, G ^a   Ritz, C ^a   Zwinger, T ^e   Greve, R ^c   Vaughan, D G ^f  

^a VERIMAG   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e IT Center for Science   (Finland)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84871773550     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-1561-2012     Document Type: Article

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