Twenty-first-century warming of a large Antarctic ice-shelf cavity by a redirected coastal current

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The redirection of warm water under the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf during the second half of this century could cause the ice-shelf base to melt at a rate 20 times higher than at present.

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7397/full/nature11064.html
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10/05/2012