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- Title
Fast recession of a west antarctic glacier
- Authors
Rignot EJ
- Abstract
Satellite radar interferometry observations of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, reveal that the glacier hinge-line position retreated 1.2 +/- 0.3 kilometers per year between 1992 and 1996, which in turn implies that the ice thinned by 3.5 +/- 0.9 meters per year. The fast recession of Pine Island Glacier, predicted to be a possible trigger for the disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is attributed to enhanced basal melting of the glacier floating tongue by warm ocean waters.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 1998, Vol 281, Issue 5376, p549
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.281.5376.549