Enhanced basal lubrication and the contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to future sea-level rise

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 14156-14161

  Shannon, Sarah R ^a   Payne, Antony J ^a   Bartholomew, Ian D ^b   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^c   Edwards, Tamsin L ^a   Fettweis, Xavier ^d   Gagliardini, Olivier ^e,f   Gillet Chaulet, Fabien ^e   Goelzer, Heiko ^g   Hoffman, Matthew J ^h   Huybrechts, Philippe ^g   Mair, Douglas W F ⁱ   Nienow, Peter W ^b   Perego, Mauro ^j   Price, Stephen F ^h   Paul Smeets, C J P ^c   Sole, Andrew J ^k   Van De Wal, Roderik S W ^c   Zwinger, Thomas ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^g VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^h LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^j FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^l CSC Scientific Computing Ltd   (Finland)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

RUNOFF;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLOW KINETICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; LUBRICATION; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84883325887     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212647110     Document Type: Article

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