Export and circulation of ice cavity water in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Thurnherr, A. M., Jacobs, S. S., Dutrieux, P., Giulivi, C. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; West Antarctica; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507555/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507555/1/jgrc20608.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009307

Large sectors of the Antarctic ice sheet are vulnerable to increases in melting at the bases of fringing ice shelves, with melt rates depending on ocean temperatures and circulations in the sub-ice cavities. Here we analyze an oceanographic data set obtained in austral summer 2009 in Pine Island Bay...