Scientists report large-scale surface melting event in Antarctica during 2015-16 El Niño

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The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landbound mass of ice larger than Mexico, experienced substantial surface melt through the austral summer of 2015-2016 during one of the largest El Niño events of the past 50 years, according to scientists who had been conducting the first comprehensive atmospheric measurements in the region since the 1960s. The […]

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June 15, 2017 at 08:49AM