Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss.

Yunhe Wang, Qinghua Ding, Xiaofeng Li, Thomas J Ballinger, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Dániel Topál, Eric J Steig

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Yunhe WangKey Laboratory of Ocean Observation and Forecasting and Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.

Qinghua DingDepartment of Geography, and Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. qinghua@ucsb.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3634-0181

Xiaofeng LiKey Laboratory of Ocean Observation and Forecasting and Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China. lixf@qdio.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-5119

Thomas J BallingerInternational Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-1927

Yoshihiro NakayamaThayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6543-529X

Dániel TopálEarth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9348-4494

Eric J SteigDepartment of Earth and Space Sciences and Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8191-5549

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antarctic mass loss has been a major contributor to global sea-level rise for most of the last few decades, mainly driven by West Antarctica

Indexed as

Global WarmingIce CoverSeawaterAntarctic RegionsClimate ModelsIndian OceanRainTemperatureTropical Climate

Identifiers

PMID42618788

DOI10.1038/s41586-026-10912-x

PMCPMC13518241

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