On the difficulty of modeling Circumpolar Deep Water intrusions onto the Amundsen Sea continental shelf

• Published in: Ocean Modelling
• Main Authors: Nakayama, Yoshihiro, Timmermann, Ralph, Schröder, Michael, Hellmer, Hartmut
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Pine Island; Sea ice; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36521/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1463500314001383; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44341

In the Amundsen Sea, warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) intrudes onto the continental shelf and flows into the ice shelf cavities of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, resulting in high basal melt rates. However, none of the high resolution global models resolving all the small ice shelves around Antarcti...