Bathymetric and subglacial hydrological context for the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves ...
Today, Antarctica holds a 58 m (190 ft) sea level potential locked in its grounded ice. Ice shelves serve as a gatekeeper to this grounded ice. However, sea level is currently rising at an alarming rate, ultimately endangering lives and economies all over the world. To accurately project the future...
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ftdatacite:10.26153/tsw/41879 2024-03-31T07:49:17+00:00 Bathymetric and subglacial hydrological context for the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves ... Wei, Wei 2021 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/41879 https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/114976 en eng The University of Texas at Austin Ice shelf Bathymetry Basal melting Subglacial discharges Text article-journal Thesis ScholarlyArticle 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/41879 2024-03-04T14:05:02Z Today, Antarctica holds a 58 m (190 ft) sea level potential locked in its grounded ice. Ice shelves serve as a gatekeeper to this grounded ice. However, sea level is currently rising at an alarming rate, ultimately endangering lives and economies all over the world. To accurately project the future sea level in an ever-changing climate requires a deeper understanding of how ice shelves respond to environmental changes. Hence, this dissertation seeks to further our understanding of the ice-ocean-interaction process by investigating the mechanisms causing ice shelf changes and the sensitivity of ice shelves to changes in their oceanic environment. To achieve this, a combination of observation and modeling approaches are deployed. We provide the bathymetric and subglacial discharge context for two significant ice shelves, Getz Ice Shelf in West Antarctica and West Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. Getz Ice Shelf is the largest meltwater source from Antarctica to the Southern Ocean, highlighting a need to understand ... Thesis Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Getz Ice Shelf Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Southern Ocean West Antarctica West Ice Shelf DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic East Antarctica Getz ENVELOPE(-145.217,-145.217,-76.550,-76.550) Getz Ice Shelf ENVELOPE(-126.500,-126.500,-74.250,-74.250) Southern Ocean West Antarctica West Ice Shelf ENVELOPE(85.000,85.000,-67.000,-67.000) |
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Today, Antarctica holds a 58 m (190 ft) sea level potential locked in its grounded ice. Ice shelves serve as a gatekeeper to this grounded ice. However, sea level is currently rising at an alarming rate, ultimately endangering lives and economies all over the world. To accurately project the future sea level in an ever-changing climate requires a deeper understanding of how ice shelves respond to environmental changes. Hence, this dissertation seeks to further our understanding of the ice-ocean-interaction process by investigating the mechanisms causing ice shelf changes and the sensitivity of ice shelves to changes in their oceanic environment. To achieve this, a combination of observation and modeling approaches are deployed. We provide the bathymetric and subglacial discharge context for two significant ice shelves, Getz Ice Shelf in West Antarctica and West Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. Getz Ice Shelf is the largest meltwater source from Antarctica to the Southern Ocean, highlighting a need to understand ... |
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Bathymetric and subglacial hydrological context for the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves ... |
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Bathymetric and subglacial hydrological context for the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves ... |
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The University of Texas at Austin |
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