West Antarctic surface melt triggered by atmospheric rivers

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Wille, Jonathan D., Favier, Vincent, Dufour, Ambrose, Gorodetskaya, Irina V., Turner, John, Agosta, Cecile, Codron, Francis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Research 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Ross Ice Shelf; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Wilkins; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525774/; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0460-1

Recent major melting events in West Antarctica have raised concerns about a potential hydrofracturing and ice shelf instability. These events often share common forcings of surface melt-like anomalous radiative fluxes, turbulent heat fluxes and föhn winds. Using an atmospheric river detection algori...