Observations of submesoscale eddy-driven heat transport at an ice shelf calving front

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Friedrichs, Drew M., McInerney, Jasmin B.T., Oldroyd, Holly J., Lee, Won Sang, Yun, Sukyoung, Yoon, Seung-Tae, Stevens, Craig L., Zappa, Christopher J., Dow, Christine F., Mueller, Derek, Sepúlveda Steiner, Oscar, Forrest, Alexander L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2022
• Subjects: Austral; Buttress; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00460-3

Antarctica’s ice shelves buttress the continent’s terrestrial ice, helping slow the loss of grounded ice into the ocean and limiting sea level rise. Ice-ocean interaction plays a critical role in ice shelf stability by driving basal melt rates. Consequently, improved prediction of the future state o...