Antarctic ice sheet discharge driven by atmosphere-ocean feedbacks at the Last Glacial Termination

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Fogwill, C J ^a   Turney, C S M ^a   Golledge, N R ^b,c   Etheridge, D M ^d   Rubino, M ^d,e   Thornton, D P ^d   Baker, A ^a   Woodward, J ^f   Winter, K ^f   Van Ommen, T D ^g,h   Moy, A D ^g,h   Curran, M A J ^g,h   Davies, S M ⁱ   Weber, M E ^j,k   Bird, M I ^l   Munksgaard, N C ^l,m   Menviel, L ^a   Rootes, C M ⁿ   Ellis, B ^o   Millman, H ^a   Vohra, J ^a   Rivera, A ^p,q   Cooper, A ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^f NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

ⁱ SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^l JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^m CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^o AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^p Centro de Estudios Cientficos   (Chile)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

more..

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EID: 85008626284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep39979     Document Type: Article

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