Roosevelt Island climate evolution project

11:35 PM Thu 3 Feb 2011 GMT

'Antarctica New Zealand' Antarctica New Zealand

Antarctica New Zealand, a Kiwi-led group of scientists, have just returned from establishing a camp at the remote Roosevelt Island, some 700km east of Scott Base. The Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) project, a seven nation collaboration between New Zealand, United States, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, and Italy, aims to quantify how stable the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) will be in a warming world. The stability of WAIS is highlighted as a major concern and uncertainty in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN authority for assessment and advice on climate change ...

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