Why East Antarctica is a 'sleeping giant' of sea level rise
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(Image credit: Peter Neff) Scientists once thought the East Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough water to raise sea…
(Image credit: Peter Neff) Scientists once thought the East Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough water to raise sea…
The IMBIE team. Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017. Nature 558, 219–222 (2018).
표지 사진은 남극 동부지역의 대륙붕으로부터 수집된 침전물 코어에 있는 화석화된 꽃가루를 선별적으로 보여주고 있다. Sean Gulick, Amelia Shevenell, 그리고 공동연구원들은 이러한 화석들을 이용하여 오로라 빙하 아…
Enough water is frozen into the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that if all of it melted, it could raise sea levels nearly 174 feet.