Impact of local winter cooling on the melt of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6718-6732

  St Laurent, P ^a   Klinck, J M ^a   Dinniman, M S ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amundsen Sea; Antarctica; ice shelves; polynyas

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BASAL MELTING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; COOLING; ICE SHELF; MELT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYNYA; WARM WATER; WINTER;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84949463601     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JC010709     Document Type: Article

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