Runaway West Antarctic ice retreat can be slowed by climate-driven changes in ocean temperature (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Runaway West Antarctic ice retreat can be slowed by climate-driven changes in ocean temperature

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Getz Ice Shelf of the Amundsen Sector, West Antarctica, and sea ice offshore.

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Image ©NASA/USGS, processed by Dr Frazer Christie, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

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