Eric Rignot

Co-author, professor of Earth system science at UC Irvine and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Doomsday Glacier melting faster than projected, doubling sea level estimate

Active researcher on Antarctic ice dynamics

Thwaites glacier — the widest on Earth, roughly the size of Senegal — melts from below as warm seawater pumps underneath it. A new model of that process doubles the amount of sea level rise the glacier is projected to add by 2100.

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