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| Title |
Trends and connections across the Antarctic cryosphere
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1038/s41586-018-0171-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andrew Shepherd, Helen Amanda Fricker, Sinead Louise Farrell |
| Abstract |
Satellite observations have transformed our understanding of the Antarctic cryosphere. The continent holds the vast majority of Earth's fresh water, and blankets swathes of the Southern Hemisphere in ice. Reductions in the thickness and extent of floating ice shelves have disturbed inland ice, triggering retreat, acceleration and drawdown of marine-terminating glaciers. The waxing and waning of Antarctic sea ice is one of Earth's greatest seasonal habitat changes, and although the maximum extent of the sea ice has increased modestly since the 1970s, inter-annual variability is high, and there is evidence of longer-term decline in its extent. |
Twitter Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 372 tweeters who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 53 | 14% |
| Spain | 30 | 8% |
| Mexico | 25 | 7% |
| United States | 19 | 5% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 19 | 5% |
| Argentina | 18 | 5% |
| Colombia | 7 | 2% |
| Ecuador | 6 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 35 | 9% |
| Unknown | 154 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 347 | 93% |
| Scientists | 17 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 6 | 2% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 269 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 269 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 60 | 22% |
| Researcher | 47 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 10% |
| Professor | 17 | 6% |
| Other | 41 | 15% |
| Unknown | 51 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 137 | 51% |
| Environmental Science | 31 | 12% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 9 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 3% |
| Engineering | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 18 | 7% |
| Unknown | 60 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 800. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2023.
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#21,974
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#2,180
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#468
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#53
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