The 21st-century Weddell Sea hosing experiment: Causes and consequences

• Main Authors: Hellmer, Hartmut, Timmermann, Ralph, Kauker, Frank, Schröder, Michael
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ronne Ice Shelf; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30730/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30730/1/FRISP_Book_of_Abstracts_May22.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39663; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39663.d001

Simulations with the circumpolar coupled ice-ocean model (BRIOS) forced with the A1B atmospheric output of the Hadley Centre climate model HadCM3 revealed a sudden (within a decade) increase of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) basal melting from 0.2 m/yr (82 Gt/yr) to almost 4 m/yr (1600 Gt/yr) in th...