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

Nature Geoscience - Tập 1 Số 2 - Trang 106-110 - 2008
Eric Rignot1,2,3, J. L. Bamber4, M. R. van den Broeke5, C.H. Davis6, Frank Yonghong Li6, Willem Jan van de Berg5, Erik van Meijgaard7
1Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109 USA
3University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, California 92697, USA
4University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK
5Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (IMAU), Utrecht University, 3584 CC Utrecht, the Netherlands
6University of Missouri‐Columbia Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA
7Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), 3732 GK De Bilt, The Netherlands

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