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Monday, November 9, 2009

Mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (map/graphic/illustration)

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Mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Increase in mass loss by the West Antarctic ice sheet. The mass loss has been steadily increasing since the 1970s as a result of accelerations in glacier flow; snowfall has not changed significantly in Antarctica over the past 50 years.
Sources Rignot E. et al. 2008b. Rignot, E. 2008.
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Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
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Published 2009
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