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Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

20121,467 citationsJournal Articlegreen Open Access

Authors

Hamish D. Pritchard · Natural Environment Research Council

S. Ligtenberg · Utrecht University

H. A. Fricker · University of California, San Diego

David G. Vaughan · Natural Environment Research Council

M. R. van den Broeke · Utrecht University

Laurie Padman · Cascade (United States)

Topics & Keywords

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life below water

Publication Details

Published in: Nature

Volume 484, Issue 7395, pp. 502-505

DOI: 10.1038/nature10968

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 87.08

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