Rapid drawdown of Antarctica's Wordie Ice Shelf glaciers in response to ENSO/Southern Annular Mode-driven warming in the Southern Ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 476, Issue , 2017, Pages 100-110

  Walker, C C ^a   Gardner, A S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic glaciology; atmosphere ocean interaction; glacier change; ocean warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC GLACIOLOGY; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; GLACIER CHANGE; OCEAN WARMING; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ICE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLACIER; GLACIOLOGY; ICE FLOW; ICE SHELF; LANDSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WARMING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORDIE ICE SHELF;

EID: 85028618220     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.005     Document Type: Article

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