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Decline of West Antarctic Glaciers Appears Irreversible

The Amundsen Sea segment of the ice sheet has begun a melting process that will result in its loss, possibly within the next few hundred years.


Image courtesy Jeremie Mouginot, University of California, Irvine, originally published in Geophysical Research Letters. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published May 16, 2014
Data acquired 1996 - 2008

Sources:
ALOS > PALSAR
ERS
Landsat 2
Landsat 3
Landsat 4
Landsat 4 > MSS
Landsat 4 > TM
Landsat 5
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7
Landsat 7 > ETM+
RADARSAT > SAR
TANDEM-X