Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river

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Robin E. Bell
Winnie Chu
Jonathan Kingslake
Indrani Das
Marco Tedesco
Kirsty J. Tinto
Christopher J. Zappa
Massimo Frezzotti
Alexandra Boghosian
Won Sang Lee
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[1] Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University,Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
[2] Palisades,undefined
[3] Columbia University,undefined
[4] Palisades,undefined
[5] NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies,undefined
[6] Italian National Agency for New Technologies,undefined
[7] Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA SP),undefined
[8] Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI),undefined
[9] Korea University of Science and Technology,undefined
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Nature | 2017年 / 544卷
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On the Nansen Ice Shelf in Antarctica, a surface river that terminates in a waterfall can drain the ice shelf’s entire annual meltwater in just one week, potentially preventing the meltwater from hastening the catastrophic collapse of the shelf.
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