Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Achter, Guillian, Fichefet, Thierry, Goosse, Hugues, Moreno-Chamarro, Eduardo
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Moscow University Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Totten Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*; Sea ice; Totten Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-94; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-2022-94/

The Totten Glacier in East Antarctica is of major climatic interest because of the large fluctuations in its grounding line and potential vulnerability to climate change. Here, we use a series of high-resolution, regional NEMO-LIM-based (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean coupled with the L...