Glacier/ocean interactions in Greenland and their impact on the climate system
Rapid mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased interest in glacier/ocean interactions for two reasons. First, increased submarine melting of marine terminating glaciers is a likely trigger of the observed dynamic ice loss. Second, the increased freshwater discharge from Greenland has the...
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fthokunivhus:oai:eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp:2115/65084 2023-05-15T15:08:19+02:00 Glacier/ocean interactions in Greenland and their impact on the climate system Straneo, Fiammetta http://hdl.handle.net/2115/65084 https://doi.org/10.14943/lowtemsci.75.67 eng eng 低温科学第75巻編集委員会 http://hdl.handle.net/2115/65084 doi:10.14943/lowtemsci.75.67 低温科学, 75: 67-75 Glacier/ocean interaction Greenland glacial fjords submarine melt Arctic freshwater bulletin (article) fthokunivhus https://doi.org/10.14943/lowtemsci.75.67 2022-11-18T01:04:10Z Rapid mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased interest in glacier/ocean interactions for two reasons. First, increased submarine melting of marine terminating glaciers is a likely trigger of the observed dynamic ice loss. Second, the increased freshwater discharge from Greenland has the potential to affect the regional and large-scale ocean circulation. While extensive progress has been made, over the last decade, in understanding glacier/ocean exchanges of heat and freshwater in Greenlandʼs glacial fjords, an in-depth knowledge of these exchanges is hindered by the models’ inability to resolve the wide range of dynamical scales involved and by the fact that observations that can only provide a partial description because of the intrinsic challenges of working at the glacier margins. Specifically, major challenges remain to understand the dynamics in the near-ice zone, which controls submarine melting and iceberg calving, and the different drivers of the fjord circulation that delivers heat to the glacier. On the ocean side, much progress has been made in showing how Greenlandʼs meltwaters are exported into the ocean in the form of highly diluted glacially modified waters whose properties depend on the details of the glacier/ocean/iceberg interaction. Major challenges remain, however, to parameterize these processes in order to provide appropriate boundary conditions to ocean/climate models. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Iceberg* Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (HUSCAP) Arctic Greenland |
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Rapid mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased interest in glacier/ocean interactions for two reasons. First, increased submarine melting of marine terminating glaciers is a likely trigger of the observed dynamic ice loss. Second, the increased freshwater discharge from Greenland has the potential to affect the regional and large-scale ocean circulation. While extensive progress has been made, over the last decade, in understanding glacier/ocean exchanges of heat and freshwater in Greenlandʼs glacial fjords, an in-depth knowledge of these exchanges is hindered by the models’ inability to resolve the wide range of dynamical scales involved and by the fact that observations that can only provide a partial description because of the intrinsic challenges of working at the glacier margins. Specifically, major challenges remain to understand the dynamics in the near-ice zone, which controls submarine melting and iceberg calving, and the different drivers of the fjord circulation that delivers heat to the glacier. On the ocean side, much progress has been made in showing how Greenlandʼs meltwaters are exported into the ocean in the form of highly diluted glacially modified waters whose properties depend on the details of the glacier/ocean/iceberg interaction. Major challenges remain, however, to parameterize these processes in order to provide appropriate boundary conditions to ocean/climate models. |
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Glacier/ocean interactions in Greenland and their impact on the climate system |
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Glacier/ocean interactions in Greenland and their impact on the climate system |
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Glacier/ocean interactions in Greenland and their impact on the climate system |
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Glacier/ocean interactions in Greenland and their impact on the climate system |
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Glacier/ocean interactions in Greenland and their impact on the climate system |
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glacier/ocean interactions in greenland and their impact on the climate system |
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Arctic glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Iceberg* |
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Arctic glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Iceberg* |
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