A thorough overview of the ideas behind #WAIS collapse from the late and much missed #DavidVaughan who sadly died last week.
Appropriate given latest work on #ThwaitesGlacier which David was also UK #Science lead on

"West #Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse, the fall and rise of a paradigm"

#Antarctica

Cc @kim

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-008-9448-3#ref-CR28

I was very sad to read that emeritus #BAS scientist #DavidVaughan died after short illness last week. He was always kind and encouraging to me personally and very good at communicating our science in general

Ht @carlosmoffat

The #BritishAntarcticSurvey have a very thorough obituary here:

#glaciology #Antarctica

https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/professor-david-g-vaughan-obe/