Analysis and modeling of the distribution of tracers of glacial melt in the Southern Ocean with focus on the Southeast Pacific sector

• Main Author: Nakayama, Yoshihiro
• Other Authors: Lemke, Peter, Hellmer, Hartmut, Kanzow, Torsten
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2015
• Subjects: Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; Pine Island Glacier; ice shelf-ocean interaction; glacial melt water; Ross Sea; 530; 530 Physics; ddc:530; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Bellingshausen Sea; Pacific; Simu; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/804; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00104246-16

In the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, the ice shelves and glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) are rapidly thinning, especially in the Amundsen Sea (AS) and Bellingshausen Sea (BS). The high basal melting of these relative small ice shelves is caused by warm Circum- polar Deep Wate...