Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

H. D. Pritchard (), S. R. M. Ligtenberg, H. A. Fricker, D. G. Vaughan, M. R. van den Broeke and L. Padman
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H. D. Pritchard: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
S. R. M. Ligtenberg: Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
H. A. Fricker: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
D. G. Vaughan: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
M. R. van den Broeke: Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
L. Padman: Earth & Space Research, 3350 Southwest Cascade Avenue

Nature, 2012, vol. 484, issue 7395, 502-505

Abstract: Using satellite laser altimetry, basal melting of ice shelves is determined to be the main driver of Antarctic ice-sheet loss,with changing climate the likely cause.

Date: 2012
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