Freshwater flux from ice sheet melting and iceberg calving in the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Geoscience Data Journal
• Main Authors: Hammond, Mark D., Jones, Daniel C.
• Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.43; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgdj3.43; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gdj3.43

This dataset is a multiyear mean Southern Ocean freshwater flux field that uses recently compiled measurements of ice sheet melting, iceberg calving, iceberg tracking, and river runoff. It has a horizontal resolution of 1/6° and uses BEDMAP2 for identifying and placing individual ice sheets. The aim of this work is to improve the representation of Antarctic freshwater input in Southern Ocean models.