Tidal Modulation of Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting

• Main Authors: Richter, Ole, Gwyther, David E., King, Matt A., Galton-Fenzi, Benjamin K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Bellingshausen Sea; Ronne Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-169; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-169/

Tides influence basal melting of individual Antarctic ice shelves, but their net impact on Antarctic-wide ice-ocean interaction has yet to be constrained. Here we quantify the impact of tides on ice shelf melting and the continental shelf seas by means of a 4 km resolution circum-Antarctic ocean mod...