Active water exchange and life near the grounding line of an Antarctic outlet glacier

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Sugiyama, Shin, Sawagaki, Takanobu, Fukuda, Takehiro, Aoki, Shigeru
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Antarctica; grounding line; basal melting; hot water drilling; outlet glacier; ice-ocean interaction; 450; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Langhovde; Langhovde Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/57003; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.001

The grounding line (GL) of the Antarctic ice sheet forms the boundary between grounded and floating ice along the coast. Near this line, warm oceanic water contacts the ice shelf, producing the ice sheet's highest basal-melt rate. Despite the importance of this region, water properties and circ...