Interannual variations of heat budget in the lower layer of the eastern Ross Sea shelf and the forcing mechanisms in the Southern Ocean State Estimate

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Authors: Chen, Yuanjie, Zhang, Zhaoru, Wang, Xuezhu, Liu, Xiaohui, Zhou, Meng
• Other Authors: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, National Key Research and Development Program of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Western Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.8132; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.8132

Abstract The temporal variation of heat budget in the lower layer of the eastern Ross Sea shelf (ERSS) is crucial for understanding the stability of ice shelves in the Ross Sea. In this study, a 6‐year (2005–2010) simulation from the Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE) is employed to analyse the in...