Slowdown of Shirase Glacier caused by strengthening alongshore winds

• Main Authors: Miles, Bertie W. J., Stokes, Chris R., Jenkins, Adrian, Jordan, Jim R., Jamieson, Stewart S. R., Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Shirase Glacier; West Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-126; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-126/

Observations have confirmed basal melt rates of up to 16 m a -1 underneath the Shirase ice tongue in East Antarctica. These high basal melt rates are caused by intrusions of warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) onto the continental shelf, a mechanism responsible for widespread mass loss in We...