Study: Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise (2016)

2016, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Ice Sheets, PlioceneLeave a comment

A study published in March 2016, suggests that large parts of East Antarctica’s ice sheet can collapse, can do so under Pliocene conditions. A key question has long been whether ice sheet contribution could accelerate substantially, by an order of magnitude, either in this century or subsequently. Until recently ice sheet models had problems to…