Ocean mixing and heat transport at the ice front of Dotson Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Sheehan, P., Damerell, G., Hall, R., Dotto, T., Zheng, Y., Heywood, K.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Dotson Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5017703

The Dotson Ice Shelf, which abuts the warm waters of Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea, has exhibited high rates of ocean-driven basal melting in recent decades. As part of the UK-US ITGC collaboration, we surveyed the ice front using a vertical microstructure profiler (VMP) and two ocean gliders equipped w...