Rapid submarine ice melting in the grounding zones of ice shelves in West Antarctica

Enhanced submarine ice-shelf melting strongly controls ice loss in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica, but its magnitude is not well known in the critical grounding zones of the ASE’s major glaciers. Here we directly quantify bottom ice losses along tens of kilometres with airborne...

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Published in:	Nature communications Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 13243 - 8
Main Authors:	Khazendar, Ala, Rignot, Eric, Schroeder, Dustin M., Seroussi, Helene, Schodlok, Michael P., Scheuchl, Bernd, Mouginot, Jeremie, Sutterley, Tyler C., Velicogna, Isabella
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 25.10.2016 Nature Publishing Group Nature Portfolio
Subjects:	704/106/125 704/829/2737 Airborne radar Anchor ice Equilibrium Glaciers Humanities and Social Sciences Hypotheses Ice Ice shelves Melting multidisciplinary Oceanography Science Science (multidisciplinary) Topography Amundsen Sea Antarctica California United States > US
ISSN:	2041-1723, 2041-1723
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