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Ice-shelf retreat drives recent Pine Island Glacier speedup

Speedup of Pine Island Glacier over the past several decades has made it Antarctica’s largest contributor to sea-level rise. The past speedup is largely due to grounding-line retreat in response to ocean-induced thinning that reduced ice-shelf buttressing. While speeds remained fairly steady from 20...

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Autores principales: Joughin, Ian, Shapero, Daniel, Smith, Ben, Dutrieux, Pierre, Barham, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34117064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg3080