Central tropical Pacific convection drives extreme high temperatures and surface melt on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Clem, Kyle R., Bozkurt, Deniz, Kennett, Daemon, King, John C., Turner, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Drake Passage; Larsen Ice Shelf; Pacific; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9279480/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35831281; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31119-4

Northern sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf, eastern Antarctic Peninsula (AP) have experienced dramatic break-up and collapse since the early 1990s due to strong summertime surface melt, linked to strengthened circumpolar westerly winds. Here we show that extreme summertime surface melt and record-hig...