Eric Rignot: Observing Antarctic Glaciers

Published On: May 19, 2015

Eric Rignot from UC Irvine discusses Observing Antarctic Glaciers. This […]

Eric Rignot from UC Irvine discusses Observing Antarctic Glaciers.

This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013.

Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL060140/pdf

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