Twenty-first-century warming of a large Antarctic ice-shelf cavity by a redirected coastal current

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Hellmer, Hartmut H., Kauker, Frank, Timmermann, Ralph, Determann, Jürgen, Rae, Jamie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner Trough; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30379/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30379/1/NatureN4_txt.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11064; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39299; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39299.d001

The Antarctic ice sheet loses mass at its fringes bordering the Southern Ocean. At this boundary, warm circumpolar water can override the continental slope front, reaching the grounding line through submarine glacial troughs and causing high rates of melting at the deep ice-shelf bases. The interpla...