Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-1561-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-1561-2014
Research article
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21 Aug 2014
Research article |  | 21 Aug 2014

Dynamic response of Antarctic ice shelves to bedrock uncertainty

S. Sun, S. L. Cornford, Y. Liu, and J. C. Moore

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