Parker, A. (2015) Relevance of geothermal sources and ocean circulation in the reduction of the West Antarctica sea ice sheet. Physics Journal, 1 (2). pp. 128-136.

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Abstract

A recent article by Schroeder et al. [1] suggests that geothermal heat may be the trigger of the reducing West Antarctica mostly marine ice sheet. I propose that the geothermal contribution is only a small part of a complex situation that also involves effects of ocean and air temperatures, glacial history, ice thickness, mass balance and sub-glacial elevations that unfortunately are not monitored as they should. Consideration of the simultaneous influences of all these factors are required to come to a meaningful conclusion about the West Antarctic (or the Arctic) ice sheet. A complex puzzle is not solved by a single piece, in this case a geothermal source, in the case of the IPCC [2] proxy data of surface air temperature.

Item ID:	42829
Item Type:	Article (Commentary)
Keywords:	geothermal sources; West Antarctica; Antarctic; sea ice; lower troposphere temperature
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Additional Information:	© 2015 The Authors. Published by American Institute of Science. This Open Access article is under the CC BY-NC license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2016 22:37
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