A realistic Greenland ice sheet and surrounding glaciers and ice caps melting in a coupled climate model

• Published in: Climate Dynamics
• Main Authors: DEVILLIERS, Marion, SWINGEDOUW, Didier, MIGNOT, Juliette, DESHAYES, Julie, GARRIC, Gilles, AYACHE, Mohamed
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Climate Modeling; Computer Simulation; Glacier Dynamics; Glacier Flow; Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet; Gyre; Ice Sheet; Meridional Circulation; Numerical Model; Overturn; Sciences de l'environnement; Irminger Sea; glacier; Iceberg*; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/184847; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12278/184847; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05816-7

Greenland ice sheet experienced an intensive melting in the last century, especially in the 1920s and over the last decades. The supplementary input into the ocean could disrupt the freshwater budget of the North Atlantic. Simultaneously, some signs of a recent weakening of the Atlantic Meridional O...