Modeling the spreading of glacial meltwater from the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Nakayama, Yoshihiro, Timmermann, Ralph, Rodehacke, C. B., Schröder, Michael, Hellmer, Hartmut H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2014
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Bellingshausen Sea; Getz; Getz Ice Shelf; Ross Sea; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36977/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36977/1/grl52318.pdf; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL061600/abstract;jsessionid=071C10332639D59B18ABBC5B1108A1BE.f04t02; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44732; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44732.d001

It has been suggested that an increased melting of continental ice in the Amundsen Sea (AS) and Bellingshausen Sea (BS) is a likely source of the observed freshening of Ross Sea (RS) water. To test this hypothesis, we simulate the spreading of glacial meltwater using the Finite Element Sea Ice/Ice S...