Overshooting the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet.
Journal
Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
Historique:
received:
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01
2023
accepted:
28
07
2023
medline:
23
10
2023
pubmed:
19
10
2023
entrez:
18
10
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Melting of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) in response to anthropogenic global warming poses a severe threat in terms of global sea-level rise (SLR)
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pubmed: 37853149
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06503-9
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06503-9
pmc: PMC10584691
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Journal Article
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eng
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528-536Commentaires et corrections
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© 2023. The Author(s).
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