Cryosphere: Entry beneath ice

Ice shelves in West Antarctica have been shown to melt where warm circumpolar deep water enters a sub-shelf cavity. A bathymetric reconstruction of Totten Glacier in East Antarctica suggests that the same process may be at work there.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Geoscience
Main Author: Fretwell, Peter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2015
Subjects:
East Antarctica
West Antarctica
Totten Glacier
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Shelves
Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/510864/
https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2396
Description
Summary:Ice shelves in West Antarctica have been shown to melt where warm circumpolar deep water enters a sub-shelf cavity. A bathymetric reconstruction of Totten Glacier in East Antarctica suggests that the same process may be at work there.

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