Southern Ocean warming and increased ice shelf basal melting in the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries based on coupled ice-ocean finite-element modelling

• Published in: Ocean Dynamics
• Main Authors: Timmermann, Ralph, Hellmer, Hartmut
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Ronne Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30971/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30971/1/TimmermannHellmer_2013.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10236-013-0642-0; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41921; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41921.d001

We utilise a global finite-element sea ice–ocean model (FESOM), focused on the Antarctic marginal seas, to analyse projections of ice shelf basal melting in a warmer climate. Ice shelf–ocean interaction is described using a three-equation system with a diagnostic computation of temperature and salin...