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Just a big downer?
Matt King explains how the 1960's studies can help understand complex situation of fast changing Antarctic ice sheets. One of such studies focused on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica due south of India. Ice shelves do not impact sea level directly but have been shown to slow the flow of grounded ice into the oceans. They indicate climate change as the warmer oceans below and the air above can join to melt them. Matt explains how four researchers made their home on Amery's snowy surface, placing survey marker poles in the ice in the form of Vauxhall drive shafts that stuck six-meter out of the ice every 3-7km and made calculations between poles. Matt lead a team of six researchers in a search for the poles in the 1990s and feels that the Amery Ice Shelf will become a standard for future measurements of ice sheets.
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Publication title
Planet EarthIssue
AUTUMNPagination
12-13ISSN
1479-2605Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesRepository Status
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