Impact of Local Winter Cooling on the Melt of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: St-Laurent, P., Klinck, J. M., Dinniman, M. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 2015
• Subjects: Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; Ice shelves; Polynyas; Climate; Oceanography; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/295; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015jc010709; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/context/ccpo_pubs/article/1301/viewcontent/Klinck_2015_ImpactofLocalWinterCoolingontheMeltOCR.pdf

The rapid thinning of the ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea is generally attributed to basal melt driven by warm water originating from the continental slope. We examine the hypothesis that processes taking place on the continental shelf contribute significantly to the interannual variability of the o...