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Research article
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24 Nov 2014
Research article |
| 24 Nov 2014
Sensitivity of the Weddell Sea sector ice streams to sub-shelf melting and surface accumulation
A. P. Wright
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK
A. M. Le Brocq
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK
S. L. Cornford
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
R. G. Bingham
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK
H. F. J. Corr
British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Road, High Cross, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0ET, UK
F. Ferraccioli
British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Road, High Cross, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0ET, UK
T. A. Jordan
British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Road, High Cross, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0ET, UK
A. J. Payne
Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
D. M. Rippin
Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
M. J. Siegert
Grantham Institute and Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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