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The Vulnerable Ice Shelves of Antarctic

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Field survey near Norwegian research station Troll in Princess Martha Coast in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.

Abstract: The stability of floating Antarctic ice shelves is key to the understanding of Antarctic’s contribution to the global sea-level rise. An Indo-Norwegian project, MADICE was initiated to study the role of ice shelves and ice rises in stabilising ice sheets around the coastal Dronning Maud Land of East Antarctica.

The authors are scientists at the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa and the Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway. meloth@ncaor.gov.in. The article should be cited as Meloth T, 2019. The Vulnerable Ice Shelves of Antarctic, Geography and You, 19 (16): 24-27


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