SeaRISE
Subtitle: a multidisciplinary research initiative to predict rapid changes in global sea level caused by collapse of marine ice sheets
By: edited by R.A. Bindschadler.
Contributors: National Science Foundation (U.S.); United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Series: NASA conference publication ;; 3075
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Sea level.; Ice sheets -- Antarctica.
Description: Proceedings of a workshop on the possibility of a rapid rise in sea level following the response of the West Antarctic ice sheet to global warming, and outline of a project to study the phenomenon, called SEARISE : Sea Level Response to Ice Sheet Evolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31).
"Proceedings of a workshop cosponsored by the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., and held in College Park, Maryland, January 23-25, 1990."