Hole in Sea Ice Thickened Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Past
March 20, 2026
March 20, 2026
BREMERHAVEN, Germany, March 20 -- The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research issued the following news release:
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Hole in the sea ice thickened the Antarctic ice sheet in the past
AWI researchers reconstruct the subsurface ocean temperature and salinity in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica at high resolution during the last ice age for the first time and show that present-day processes could prevent the formation
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Hole in the sea ice thickened the Antarctic ice sheet in the past
AWI researchers reconstruct the subsurface ocean temperature and salinity in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica at high resolution during the last ice age for the first time and show that present-day processes could prevent the formation