Impact of West Antarctic ice shelf melting on Southern Ocean hydrography

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Nakayama, Yoshihiro, Timmermann, Ralph, H. Hellmer, Hartmut
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea; Ross Sea; Weddell; Darnley; Cape Darnley; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2205-2020; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00052024; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00051679/tc-14-2205-2020.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/2205/2020/tc-14-2205-2020.pdf

Previous studies show accelerations of West Antarctic glaciers, implying that basal melt rates of these glaciers were previously small and increased in the middle of the 20th century. This enhanced melting is a likely source of the observed Ross Sea (RS) freshening, but its long-term impact on the S...