Extensive inland thinning and speed-up of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 2022
Historique:
received: 23 05 2022
accepted: 31 08 2022
pubmed: 10 11 2022
medline: 26 11 2022
entrez: 9 11 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has increased owing to enhanced surface melting and ice discharge to the ocean

Identifiants

pubmed: 36352226
doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05301-z
pii: 10.1038/s41586-022-05301-z
pmc: PMC9684075
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

727-732

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Shfaqat A Khan (SA)

DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. abbas@space.dtu.dk.

Youngmin Choi (Y)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Mathieu Morlighem (M)

Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

Eric Rignot (E)

Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

Veit Helm (V)

Glaciology Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany.

Angelika Humbert (A)

Glaciology Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany.

Jérémie Mouginot (J)

Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

Romain Millan (R)

Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

Kurt H Kjær (KH)

Section for GeoGenetics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anders A Bjørk (AA)

Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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