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Joughin et al. 2005
Joughin, I., Bindschadler, R.A., King, M.A., Voigt, D., Alley, R.B., Anandakrishnan, S., Horgan, H., Peters, L., Winberry, P., Das, S.B. and Catania, G. (2005). Continued deceleration of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL024319. issn: 0094-8276.

Earlier observations indicated that Whillans Ice Stream slowed from 1973 to 1997. We collected new GPS observations of the ice stream's speed in 2003 and 2004. These data show that the ice stream is continuing to decelerate at rates of about 0.6%/yr2, with faster rates near the grounding line. Our data also indicate that the deceleration extends over the full width of the ice plain. Extrapolation of the deceleration trend suggests the ice stream could stagnate sometime between the middle of the 21st and 22nd Centuries.

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Keywords
Cryosphere, Ice sheets, Cryosphere, Ice streams, Cryosphere, Glaciology (1621, 1827, 1863), Geographic Location, Antarctica
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Geophysical Research Letters
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