Projections of ice shelf basal melting in a global finite-element sea ice–ice shelf–ocean model

• Main Authors: Timmermann, Ralph, Hellmer, Hartmut
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Amundsen Sea; Weddell; Ronne Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26051/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39017

In the framework of EU project Ice2sea, we utilize a finite element sea ice – ice shelf – ocean model (FESOM) to quantify heat and freshwater fluxes in the cavities of the Antarctic ice shelves and obtain projections for ice shelf basal melting in a warmer climate. Ice shelf–ocean interaction is des...