Sustained mass loss of the northeast Greenland ice sheet triggered by regional warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 292-299

  Khan, Shfaqat A ^a   Kjær, Kurt H ^b   Bevis, Michael ^c   Bamber, Jonathan L ^d   Wahr, John ^e   Kjeldsen, Kristian K ^b   Bjørk, Anders A ^b   Korsgaard, Niels J ^f   Stearns, Leigh A ^g   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^h,j   Liu, Lin ^h,j   Larsen, Nicolaj K ⁱ   Muresan, Ioana S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^j CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THINNING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84897029482     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2161     Document Type: Article

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