Exposure age and ice-sheet model constraints on Pliocene East Antarctic ice sheet dynamics

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yamane, Masako ^a,b   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^a,b   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^a,b   Obrochta, Stephen ^a,c   Saito, Fuyuki ^b   Moriwaki, Kiichi ^d   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; PLIOCENE; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATION; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84928782140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8016     Document Type: Article

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