Open AccessSector of West Antarctic Ice Sheet in “Irreversible Retreat”
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo200005
Subject(s) - antarctic ice sheet , ice sheet , geology , glacier , ice stream , lead (geology) , cryosphere , ice divide , future sea level , physical geography , oceanography , climatology , geomorphology , geography , sea ice
A large sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet “has gone into a state of irreversible retreat,” according to glaciologist Eric Rignot, lead author of the paper “Widespread rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler Glaciers in West Antarctica from 1992 to 2011,” which has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters ( GRL ).