Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Winkelmann, Ricarda ^a,b,c   Levermann, Anders ^a,b   Ridgwell, Andy ^d,e   Caldeira, Ken ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL DEPOSITS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GLACIERS; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS; FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCES; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; ICE SHEET MODELS; WATER EQUIVALENT; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

ICE;

EID: 84958913723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500589     Document Type: Article

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