Basal melt rates and ocean circulation under the Ryder Glacier ice tongue and their response to climate warming: a high resolution modelling study

• Main Authors: Wiskandt, Jonathan, Koszalka, Inga Monika, Nilsson, Johan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Greenland; Osborn; Ryder; Ryder Glacier; Sherard Osborn Fjord; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelves; Sherard Osborn fjord
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1296; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00063940; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/egusphere-2022-1296/egusphere-2022-1296.pdf

The oceanic forcing of basal melt under floating ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica is one of the major sources of uncertainty in climate ice sheet modelling. We use a high resolution, non-hydrostatic configuration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm)...