Recent climate and ice-sheet changes in West Antarctica compared with the past 2,000 years
Author(s) -
Eric J. Steig,
Qinghua Ding,
James White,
Marcel Küttel,
S. Rupper,
T. Neumann,
Peter D. Neff,
Ailie J. E. Gallant,
Paul A. Mayewski,
K. C. Taylor,
Georg F. Hoffmann,
Daniel A. Dixon,
Spruce W. Schoenemann,
Bradley Markle,
T. J. Fudge,
David P. Schneider,
Andrew J. Schauer,
Rebecca P. Teel,
Bruce H. Vaughn,
Landon Burgener,
Jessica Williams,
Elena Korotkikh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nature geoscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.435
H-Index - 200
eISSN - 1752-0908
pISSN - 1752-0894
DOI - 10.1038/ngeo1778
Subject(s) - ice sheet , climatology , ice core , antarctic ice sheet , context (archaeology) , δ18o , cryosphere , geology , atmospheric circulation , precipitation , antarctic sea ice , climate change , sea ice , arctic ice pack , ice shelf , oceanography , stable isotope ratio , geography , meteorology , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics
West Antarctic temperature and pressure observations begin onlyin 1957, and reliable satellite observations of Antarctic sea icedate to 1979. Comprehensive observations of glacier dynamicsin the most rapidly changing areas were initiated in the 1990s.Borehole temperature data from the WAIS, although confirmingthe recent rapid rise in temperature, do not resolve decadal-scalevariability in the past
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