BedMachine Antarctica (IMAGE)

University of California - Irvine

BedMachine Antarctica

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"Ultimately, BedMachine Antarctica presents a mixed picture: Ice streams in some areas are relatively well-protected by their underlying ground features, while others on retrograde beds are shown to be more at risk from potential marine ice sheet instability," says Mathieu Morlighem, UCI associate professor of Earth system science and lead author of the paper describing the newly released Antarctica bed topography map.

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Mathieu Morlighem / UCI

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