Control of the oceanic heat content of the Getz‐Dotson Trough, Antarctica, by the Amundsen Sea Low

• Main Authors: Dotto, TS, Naveira Garabato, AC, Wåhlin, AK, Bacon, S, Holland, PR, Kimura, S, Tsamados, M, Herraiz‐Borreguero, L, Kalén, O, Jenkins, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2020
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Circumpolar Deep Water; open ocean‐shelf exchange; West Antarctic ice shelves; atmospheric teleconnections; Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Tilting; Getz; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107857/7/Tsamados_Control%20of%20the%20oceanic%20heat%20content%20of%20the%20Getz%E2%80%90Dotson%20Trough,%20Antarctica,%20by%20the%20Amundsen%20Sea%20Low_VoR.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107857/

The changing supply of warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) to the West Antarctic continental shelf is responsible for the basal melting and thinning of the West Antarctic ice shelves that has occurred in recent decades. Here we assess the variability in CDW supply, and its drivers, from a multiyear mo...