Ice shelf-ocean interaction and meltwater transport - Updates on modelling the present state and future scenarios with FESOM

• Main Authors: Timmermann, Ralph, Nakayama, Yoshihiro
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Bellingshausen Sea; Getz; Getz Ice Shelf; Bear Peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36548/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44363

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 (WAIS), resulting in high basal melt rates. This affects the world ocean in two ways: First, melting of the ice sheets contributes to chang...