Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough
Glaciers which drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) into the Amundsen Sea are accelerating and thinning rapidly. These observations have been attributed to the regional oceanography whereby heat contained within Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) drives the basal melting of floating glaciers. On the...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:1199 2024-06-09T07:38:17+00:00 Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough Walker, Dziga P. Brandon, Mark A. Jenkins, Adrian Allen, John T. Dowdeswell, Julian A. Evans, Jeff 2007-01 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1199/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1199/1/grl22452.pdf https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2006GL028154 https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028154 en eng American Geophysical Union https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1199/1/grl22452.pdf Walker, Dziga P.; Brandon, Mark A.; Jenkins, Adrian orcid:0000-0002-9117-0616 Allen, John T.; Dowdeswell, Julian A.; Evans, Jeff. 2007 Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (2), L02602. 4, pp. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028154 <https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028154> Marine Sciences Glaciology Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2007 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028154 2024-05-15T08:39:04Z Glaciers which drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) into the Amundsen Sea are accelerating and thinning rapidly. These observations have been attributed to the regional oceanography whereby heat contained within Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) drives the basal melting of floating glaciers. On the basis of new data we calculate that 2.8 terra-Watts (1012) of oceanic heat flow onto the continental shelf and toward the glaciers via a submarine glacial trough. This is enough to account for most of the basal melting in the entire region suggesting the ocean is supplying an excess of heat toward the Antarctic continent. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Amundsen Sea Antarctic The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet Geophysical Research Letters 34 2 |
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Glaciers which drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) into the Amundsen Sea are accelerating and thinning rapidly. These observations have been attributed to the regional oceanography whereby heat contained within Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) drives the basal melting of floating glaciers. On the basis of new data we calculate that 2.8 terra-Watts (1012) of oceanic heat flow onto the continental shelf and toward the glaciers via a submarine glacial trough. This is enough to account for most of the basal melting in the entire region suggesting the ocean is supplying an excess of heat toward the Antarctic continent. |
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Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough |
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Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough |
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Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough |
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oceanic heat transport onto the amundsen sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough |
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American Geophysical Union |
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http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1199/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1199/1/grl22452.pdf https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2006GL028154 https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028154 |
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