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Science 16 March 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5818, pp. 1503 - 1504
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141111
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Why Is It Hard to Predict the Future of Ice Sheets?

David G. Vaughan and Robert Arthern

Ice sheet retreat, hypotheses of instability could be missing important processes that limit the rate or extent of retreat, or conversely, Ice sheet behavior is strongly influenced by processes at its margin and base. Observations of rapid changes at these boundaries are helping modelers to improve predictions of future changes.

The authors are with the British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. E-mail: dgv{at}bas.ac.uk

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