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Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise [1]

Climate and ice-sheet modelling that includes ice fracture dynamics reveals that Antarctica could contribute more than a metre of sea-level rise by 2100 and more than 15 metres by 2500, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

Publication Date: 
31/03/2016
Robert M. DeConto [2], David Pollard [3]
Nature [4]
531
1-20
Tags:
Antarctica [5], Sea Level Rise [6], Climate Change [7], Climate Science [8], Global Warming [9]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/david-pollard
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/nature
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming