Influence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse on Antarctic surface climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4862-4868

  Steig, Eric J ^a   Huybers, Kathleen ^b   Singh, Hansi A ^a   Steiger, Nathan J ^a   Ding, Qinghua ^a   Frierson, Dargan M W ^a   Popp, Trevor ^c   White, James W C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; atmospheric circulation; glaciology; ice core; sea level

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CORE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

ICE;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COLLAPSE; COOLING; CYCLONE; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; EAST ANTARCTICA; HERCULES DOME; MARIE BYRD LAND; MOUNT MOULTON; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84948715709     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063861     Document Type: Article

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