Persistent inflow of warm water onto the central Amundsen shelf

Autor:	Anna Wåhlin, Bengt Liljebladh, Alejandro H. Orsi, Lars Arneborg, Göran Björk
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	geography geography.geographical_feature_category Antarctic ice sheet Antarctic sea ice Arctic ice pack Ice shelf Oceanography Fast ice Climatology Sea ice General Earth and Planetary Sciences Cryosphere Ice sheet Geology
Zdroj:	Nature Geoscience. 5:876-880
ISSN:	1752-0908 1752-0894
DOI:	10.1038/ngeo1644
Popis:	The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is sensitive to ocean warming and contains enough ice to significantly raise sea level. Direct oceanographic measurements in the Amundsen Sea during 2010 show continuous inflow of warm water towards the thinning ice shelves in West Antarctica.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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