Exceptionally Warm and Prolonged Flow of Warm Deep Water Toward the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 2017

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Ryan, Svenja, Hellmer, Hartmut H., Janout, Markus, Darelius, Elin, Vignes, Lucie, Schröder, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: ddc:551.46; ocean-ice shelf interaction; Weddell Sea; warm inflow; Antarctic Slope Front; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Antarctic; Weddell; Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner Trough; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088119; http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9149

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, fringing the southern Weddell Sea, is Antarctica's second largest ice shelf. At present, basal melt rates are low due to active dense water formation; however, model projections suggest a drastic increase in the future due to enhanced inflow of open-ocean warm wate...