Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017

Andrew Shepherd; Erik Ivins; Eric Rignot; Ben Smith; M. R. van den Broeke; I. Velicogna; Pippa L. Whitehouse; Kate Briggs; Ian Joughin; Gerhard Krinner; Sophie Nowicki; A. J. Payne; T. A. Scambos; Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel; Cécile Agosta; Cécile Agosta; Andreas P. Ahlstrøm; Greg Babonis; Valentina R. Barletta; Alejandro Blazquez; B. L. Matusiak Jennifer; B. M. Csathó; Richard Cullather; F. Denis; R. Forsberg; Hubert Gallée; Alex Gardner; Lin Gilbert; Andreas Groh; B. C. Gunter; Edward Hanna; Christopher Harig; Veit Helm; Alexander Horvath; Martin Horwath; Shfaqat Abbas Khan; Kristian K. Kjeldsen; Hannes Konrad; Peter L. Langen; Bryant Loomis; Bryant Loomis; Malcolm McMillan; Malcolm McMillan; Daniele Melini; Sebastian H. Mernild; Yara Mohajerani; P. Moore; J. Mouginot; Gorka Moyano; Alan Muir; Thomas Nägler; Grace Nield; Johan Nilsson; Brice Noël; Inès Otosaka; Mark E. Pattle; W. Richard Peltier; Nadège Pie; Roelof Rietbroek; Helmut Rott; Louise Sandberg Sørensen; Ingo Sasgen; Himanshu Save; B. Scheuchl; Ernst Schrama; Ludwig Schröder; Ki‐Weon Seo; Sebastian B. Simonsen; Tom Slater; Giorgio Spada; Tyler Sutterley; Lev Tarasov; Lev Tarasov; Willem Jan van de Berg; Wouter van der Wal; Jan Melchior van Wessem; Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma; D. N. Wiese; Bert Wouters

doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0179-y

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Ice sheetFuture sea levelAntarctic ice sheetSea levelEnvironmental scienceGeologyIcebergIce streamGlacial periodPhysical geographyClimatologyOceanographySea iceCryosphereGeographyGeomorphology

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Year: 2018
Type: article
Volume: 558
Issue: 7709
Pages: 219-222
Citations: 1272
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                                    Andrew Shepherd, 
                                
                                    Erik Ivins, 
                                
                                    Eric Rignot
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017. 
                            Nature
                            , 558
                            (7709)
                            , 219-222.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0179-y
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0179-y