Marine ice sheet collapse potentially under way for the thwaites glacier basin, West Antarctica

Science

Volumn 344, Issue 6185, 2014, Pages 735-738

  Joughin, Ian ^a   Smith, Benjamin E ^a   Medley, Brooke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MELTING; SIMULATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEGLACIATION; FLOW KINETICS; GLACIER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; CLIMATE; FREEZING; ICE COVER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; FREEZING; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84900424756     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1249055     Document Type: Article

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