Divergent trajectories of Antarctic surface melt under two twenty-first-century climate scenarios

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 927-932

  Trusel, Luke D ^a,b   Frey, Karen E ^b   Das, Sarah B ^a   Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^a   Kuipers Munneke, Peter ^c,d   Van Meijgaard, Erik ^e   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL OCEAN; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRAJECTORY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84948400908     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2563     Document Type: Review

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