Two-timescale response of a large Antarctic ice shelf to climate change

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Naughten, Kaitlin A., De Rydt, Jan, Rosier, Sebastian H. R., Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul R., Ridley, Jeff K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: General Physics and Astronomy; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Chemistry; Antarctic; Ronne Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22259-0; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22259-0.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22259-0

Abstract A potentially irreversible threshold in Antarctic ice shelf melting would be crossed if the ocean cavity beneath the large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf were to become flooded with warm water from the deep ocean. Previous studies have identified this possibility, but there is great uncertainty a...