Audio of the event will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
Participants:
Eric Rignot, professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Tom Wagner, cryosphere program scientist with the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, University Park
A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.
1 - Map of Antarctica showing Amundsen Sea
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2 - Animation of grounding-line retreat
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3 - Animation of West Antarctic Ice Sheet processes
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4 - Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
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Supplemental Images
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