Thermohaline structure and circulation beneath the Langhovde Glacier ice shelf in East Antarctica

Basal melting of ice shelves is considered to be the principal driver of recent ice mass loss in Antarctica. Nevertheless, in-situ oceanic data covering the extensive areas of a subshelf cavity are sparse. Here we show comprehensive structures of temperature, salinity and current measured in January...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Minowa, Masahiro, Sugiyama, Shin, Ito, Masato, Yamane, Shiori, Aoki, Shigeru
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2115/82802
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23534-w