Data to expose 'sleeping ice giant' (Antarctica)

You'll have to pardon me if this has already been posted... just found the article and it's fascinating. Wish I could provide more excerpts. Check out the mapped projections at the link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25173121
Data to expose 'sleeping ice giant'
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco

...The new survey data should reveal how this vast tract of ice in the east of the continent is likely to respond to a warming world.

Recovery is currently perfectly stable, but any change could have significant global impact because it contains the equivalent of 2.5-3m of sea-level rise...

...Under some global warming scenarios for the end of the century, warm water from the Southern Ocean is expected to penetrate deep into the Weddell Sea, eroding the base of its ice shelves.

This could accelerate ice discharge from the Recovery catchment and potentially affect the stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet....