Antarctica’s contribution to global sea-level rise has recently been increasing . Whether its ice discharge will become unstable and decouple from anthropogenic forcing or increase linearly with the warming of the surrounding ocean is of fundamental importance . Under unabated greenhouse-gas emissions, ocean models indicate an abrupt intrusion of warm circumpolar deep water into the cavity belowWest Antarctica’s Filchner–Ronne ice shelf within the next two centuries.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/linear-sea-level-response-abrupt-ocean-warming-major-west-antarctic-ice-basin
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/m-mengel
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/j-feldmann
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/levermann
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/nature-climate-change
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oceans-and-seas
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/antarctica
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sea-level-rise
