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Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment

Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment

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Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment

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Full title

Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment

Publisher

Goddard Space Flight Center: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2020-10, Vol.117 (40), p.24735-24741

Language

English

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Goddard Space Flight Center: National Academy of Sciences

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment are among the fastest changing outlet glaciers in West Antarctica with large consequences for global sea level. Yet, assessing how much and how fast both glaciers will weaken if these changes continue remains a major uncertainty as many of the processes that control their ice sh...

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Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7547219

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7547219

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1912890117

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