Recent and imminent calving events do little to impair Amery ice shelf’s stability

Teng Li; Yan Liu; Xiao Cheng

doi:10.1007/s13131-020-1600-6

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May 2020

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Teng Li, Yan Liu, Xiao Cheng. Recent and imminent calving events do little to impair Amery ice shelf’s stability[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(5): 168-170. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1600-6

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Teng Li, Yan Liu, Xiao Cheng. Recent and imminent calving events do little to impair Amery ice shelf’s stability[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(5): 168-170. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1600-6

Teng Li, Yan Liu, Xiao Cheng. Recent and imminent calving events do little to impair Amery ice shelf’s stability[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(5): 168-170. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1600-6

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Teng Li, Yan Liu, Xiao Cheng. Recent and imminent calving events do little to impair Amery ice shelf’s stability[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(5): 168-170. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1600-6

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Recent and imminent calving events do little to impair Amery ice shelf’s stability

doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1600-6

Teng Li^{1, 4},
Yan Liu^{1, 3, 4
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Xiao Cheng^{2, 3, 4}

1.
College of Global Change and Earth System Science , and State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
2.
School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519000, China
3.
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai 519000, China
4.
University Corporation for Polar Research (UCPR), Beijing 100875, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41830536, 41925027 and 41676182; the UK-China Joint Research and Innovation Partnership Fund PhD Placement Program of China Scholarship Council (CSC).

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Corresponding author: lyxixi_2003@163.com
Received Date: 2020-03-03
Accepted Date: 2020-03-18

Available Online: 2020-12-28

Publish Date: 2020-05-25

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