The Fate of the Southern Weddell Sea Continental Shelf in a Warming Climate

Warm water of open ocean origin on the continental shelf of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas causes the highest basal melt rates reported for Antarctic ice shelves with severe consequences for the ice shelf/ice sheet dynamics. Ice shelves fringing the broad continental shelf in the Weddell and R...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Climate
Main Authors: Hellmer, Hartmut H., Kauker, Frank, Timmermann, Ralph, Hattermann, Tore
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: AMS (American Meteorological Society) 2017
Subjects:
Antarctic
Ronne Ice Shelf
The Antarctic
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf
Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
Ice Sheet
Ice Shelf
Ice Shelves
Online Access:https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44212/
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44212/1/jcli-d-16-0420.1.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0420.1

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