Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modelling

By Eric J. M. Rignot, Jonathan L. Bamber, M. Broeke, C. Davis, Yonghong Li, W. J. Berg, E. Meijgaard. 2008

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Observed estimates of ice losses in Antarctica combined with regional modelling of ice accumulation in the interior suggest that East Antarctica is close to a balanced mass budget, but large losses of ice occur in the narrow outlet channels of West Antarctic glaciers and at the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula.

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