Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales

• Main Authors: Brennan, PV, Davis, PED, Jenkins, A, Nicholls, KW, Abrahamsen, EP, Jacobs, SS, Heywood, KJ, Dutrieux, P, Cho, KH, Kim, TW
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061589/7/Brennan_Davis_et_al-2018-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research%253A_Oceans.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061589/

Ocean-driven basal melting of Amundsen Sea ice shelves has triggered acceleration, thinning, and grounding line retreat on many West Antarctic outlet glaciers. Here we present the first year-long (2014) record of basal melt rate at sub-weekly resolution from a location on the outer Pine Island Ice S...