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SUBMITTER: Favier V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5007672 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20160901
The ongoing retreat of glaciers at southern sub-polar latitudes is particularly rapid and widespread. Akin to northern sub-polar latitudes, this retreat is generally assumed to be linked to warming. However, no long-term and well-constrained glacier modeling has ever been performed to confirm this hypothesis. Here, we model the Cook Ice Cap mass balance on the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Indian Ocean, 49°S) since the 1850s. We show that glacier wastage during the 2000s in the Kerguelen was among ...[more]