West Antarctica

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International study which involved the AWI is published in The Cryosphere

[19. August 2015] West Antarctica is one oft he fastest warming regions on Earth. An international team which involved the Alfred-Wegener-Institut researched which impacts the warming has. The new study is published in the current edition of The Cryosphere.

The study involved Dr. Harmut Hellmer and Dr. Ralph Timmermann of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

The international team is the first to paint a clearer picture of West Antarctica’s future. Because of a high-resolution, large-scale computer model they could estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose over the next couple of centuries, and how much that could add to sea-level rise.

The study is published in the current edition of "The Cryosphere" with the title "Century-scale simulations of the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming climate".

You can find more information on the website of the European Geosciences Union