Toward a Better Understanding of Recent Warming of the Central West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Shallow Firn Cores

Previous studies have shown significant warming through the 1990s in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS); but the records used in those studies end in early 2000, preventing trend analysis into the latest decade. Fourteen new snowpits and firn cores were collected in 2010 and 2011, which have been c...

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Main Author: Williams, Jessica
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2013
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3939
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4938&context=etd