The maps focus on surface ice velocity, showing how Antarctica’s frozen surface changed over a 7-year period.
Ice streams
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The Uncertain Future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics discusses how climate change could affect ice streams, ice sheets, ice shelves, and sea ice in Antarctica.
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Tracking the Sources and Sinks of Antarctica’s Subglacial Waterways
Researchers examined the water flowing into and out of several Antarctic ice streams to determine the cause of a recent observed slowdown of some of these ice streams.