The Effect of Basal Melting of the Shirase Glacier Tongue on the CO2 System in Lutzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Kiuchi, Masaaki, Nomura, Daiki, Hirano, Daisuke, Tamura, Takeshi, Hashida, Gen, Ushio, Shuki, Simizu, Daisuke, Ono, Kazuya, Aoki, Shigeru
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Antarctica; biogeochemistry; CO2; ocean; sea ice; Southern Ocean; 452; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Shirase Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/83115; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005762

To clarify the effect of basal melting of ice tongues/ice shelf on the CO2 system in the Antarctic continental margin, seawater samples were collected for analysis of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), total alkalinity (TA), nutrients, chlorophyll a (chl.a), and oxygen isotopic ratios at the ice fron...