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Millennial‐Scale Vulnerability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Regional Ice Shelf Collapse
Daniel F. Martin,
Stephen Cornford 
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Antony J. Payne
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Antony J. Payne
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 1467 - 1475
Swansea University Author:
Stephen Cornford
DOI (Published version): 10.1029/2018gl081229
Abstract
The response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to ice shelf collapse is explored with a high resolution ice sheet model. Rapid melting is applied to each of its major present day drainage basins in turn , to determine which parts of the ice sheet are most vulnerable to change in oceanic forcing, over the n...
| Published in: | Geophysical Research Letters |
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| ISSN: | 0094-8276 1944-8007 |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48122 |
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The response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to ice shelf collapse is explored with a high resolution ice sheet model. Rapid melting is applied to each of its major present day drainage basins in turn , to determine which parts of the ice sheet are most vulnerable to change in oceanic forcing, over the next 1000 years. We findthat West Antarctica can be largely deglaciated over a millenium, leading to more than two metres of sea level rise, if any of its major ice shelved disintegrated. The response of East Antarctica is more muted, but not negligible. |
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| Keywords: |
Antarctica, Ice sheet modelling, sea level rise |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Issue: |
3 |
| Start Page: |
1467 |
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1475 |