The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a warming climate

Abstract In 1959 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built Camp Century beneath the surface of the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet. There they studied the feasibility of deploying ballistic missiles within the ice sheet. The base and its wastes were abandoned with minimal decommissioning in 1967, unde...

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Main Authors: William Colgan, Horst Machguth, Mike MacFerrin, Jeff D. Colgan, Dirk vanAs, Joseph A. MacGregor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-08-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069688
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