Poleward eddy-induced warm water transport across a shelf break off Totten Ice Shelf, East Antarctica

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Hirano Daisuke, Mizobata Kohei, Sasaki Hiroko, Murase Hiroto, Tamura Takeshi, Aoki Shigeru
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2021
• Subjects: Cryospheric science; Physical oceanography; トッテン棚氷融解の引き金：海洋渦が介在する沖合から棚氷への熱輸送過程の解明; Triggering of Totten Shelf Melting: Elucidation of Heat Transport Process from offshore to Ice Shelf mediated by Oceanic Eddy; Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Totten Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://oacis.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=2338; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1342/00002280/

Ice mass loss in the Wilkes Land sector of East Antarctica and the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sea sectors of West Antarctica has contributed to a rise in sea levels over several decades. The massive continental ice behind the Totten Ice Shelf, equivalent to a few meters of sea-level rise, is ground...