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Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, and author of the Climate Sight blog. Views my own.
Oct 23, 2023 16 tweets 4 min read
We’ve spent the last few years modelling the future of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, and I regret to inform you that it’s not good news. nature.com/articles/s4155… The Amundsen Sea sector is the fastest-changing region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and the most vulnerable given the geometry of the bedrock beneath it. But because ice shelf melting by the ocean is hard to model, we have very few projections of how it could change in the future.