Century-scale simulations of the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming climate

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1579-1600

  Cornford, S L ^a   Martin, D F ^b   Payne, A J ^a   Ng, E G ^b   Le Brocq, A M ^c   Gladstone, R M ^a   Edwards, T L ^a   Shannon, S R ^a   Agosta, C ^d,e   Van Den Broeke, M R ^f   Hellmer, H H ^g   Krinner, G ^d   Ligtenberg, S R M ^f   Timmermann, R ^g   Vaughan, D G ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d VERIMAG   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EMISSION; GEOACCUMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE STREAM; MELTING; METEOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SIMULATION;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THWAITES GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84939806890     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-1579-2015     Document Type: Article

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