Twenty-first-century warming of a large Antarctic ice-shelf cavity by a redirected coastal current

Hartmut H. Hellmer (), Frank Kauker, Ralph Timmermann, Jürgen Determann and Jamie Rae
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Hartmut H. Hellmer: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Frank Kauker: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Ralph Timmermann: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Jürgen Determann: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Jamie Rae: Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK

Nature, 2012, vol. 485, issue 7397, 225-228

Abstract: The redirection of warm water under the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf during the second half of this century could cause the ice-shelf base to melt at a rate 20 times higher than at present.

Date: 2012
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