Meltwater produced by wind-albedo interaction stored in an East Antarctic ice shelf

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 58-62

  Lenaerts, J T M ^a,b   Lhermitte, S ^b,c   Drews, R ^d   Ligtenberg, S R M ^a   Berger, S ^d   Helm, V ^e   Smeets, C J P P ^a   Broeke, M R Van Den ^a   Van De Berg, W J ^a   Van Meijgaard, E ^f   Eijkelboom, M ^a   Eisen, O ^e,g   Pattyn, F ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; EPISODIC EVENT; FIRN; FOEHN; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; MELTWATER; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SNOW COVER; WESTERLY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 85008415081     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3180     Document Type: Article

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