The Antarctic Coastal Current in the Bellingshausen Sea

• Main Authors: Schubert, Ryan, Thompson, Andrew F., Speer, Kevin, Schulze Chretien, Lena, Bebieva, Yana
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Bellingshausen Sea; Abbot Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-43; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-43/

The ice shelves of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet experience basal melting induced by underlying warm, salty Circumpolar Deep Water. Basal meltwater, along with run-off from ice sheets, supplies fresh buoyant water to a circulation feature near the coast, the Antarctic Coastal Current (AACC). The form...