Linear sea-level response to abrupt ocean warming of major West Antarctic ice basin

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 71-74

  Mengel, M ^a,b   Feldmann, J ^a,b   Levermann, A ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; INSTABILITY; MELTING; RETROGRESSION; TROUGH; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; FILCHNER-RONNE ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84951310803     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2808     Document Type: Article

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