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- Understanding the Antarctic ice sheet's response to global warming is based on its historical behavior, but there are limitations in current topographic data and knowledge of subsurface processes.
- Numerical models, which are essential for predicting future changes, are challenged by the complexity of these interacting oceanic, glaciological, and hydrological processes.
- To improve modeling accuracy, future research must incorporate observations from various disciplines and address the complexities across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Article Abstract
Understanding how the Antarctic ice sheet will respond to global warming relies on knowledge of how it has behaved in the past. The use of numerical models, the only means to quantitatively predict the future, is hindered by limitations to topographic data both now and in the past, and in knowledge of how subsurface oceanic, glaciological and hydrological processes interact. Incorporating the variety and interplay of such processes, operating at multiple spatio-temporal scales, is critical to modeling the Antarctic's system evolution and requires direct observations in challenging locations. As these processes do not observe disciplinary boundaries neither should our future research.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6006349 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04583-0 | DOI Listing |
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