The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 479-482

  Fürst, Johannes Jakob ^a,b   Durand, Gaël ^a,b   Gillet Chaulet, Fabien ^a,b   Tavard, Laure ^a,b   Rankl, Melanie ^c   Braun, Matthias ^c   Gagliardini, Olivier ^a,b,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOATING ICE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICEBERG; OUTFLOW; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; LARSEN ICE SHELF; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84964969742     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2912     Document Type: Article

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