Interannual variation of modified Circumpolar Deep Water volume in the Dotson-Getz Trough, West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kim, T., Yang, H., Kim, Y., Yoo, J., Park, J.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Austral; Dotson Ice Shelf; Dotson-Getz Trough; Getz; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5016716

In recent decades,wide-spread thinning of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea has been recorded driven by basal melting. Relatively warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) flows onto the continental shelfand fills the Dotson-Getz Trough (DGT) and reaches the base of the Dotson Ice Shelf (DIS). Long-...