Antarctic ice sheets are a key player in sea-level rise in a warming climate. Now an ice-sheet modelling study clearly demonstrates that an Antarctic ice sheet/shelf system in the Atlantic Ocean will be regulated by the warming of the surrounding Southern Ocean, not by marine-ice-sheet instability.
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Kusahara, K. Warming ocean erodes ice sheets. Nature Clim Change 6, 22–23 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2900
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