Thermohaline structure and circulation beneath the Langhovde Glacier ice shelf in East Antarctica

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Minowa, Masahiro, Sugiyama, Shin, Ito, Masato, Yamane, Shiori, Aoki, Shigeru
• Other Authors: MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 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; East Antarctica; Langhovde; Langhovde Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23534-w; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23534-w.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23534-w

Abstract Basal melting of ice shelves is considered to be the principal driver of recent ice mass loss in Antarctica. Nevertheless, in-situ oceanic data covering the extensive areas of a subshelf cavity are sparse. Here we show comprehensive structures of temperature, salinity and current measured i...