Submarine melt as a potential trigger of the North East Greenland Ice Stream margin retreat during Marine Isotope Stage 3
<p>The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) has been suffering a significant ice mass loss during the last decades. This is partly due to increasing oceanic temperatures in the subpolar North Atlantic, which enhance submarine basal melting and mass discharge. This demonstrates the high sensi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2019-07-01
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Series: | The Cryosphere |
Online Access: | https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/1911/2019/tc-13-1911-2019.pdf |