Drivers and Reversibility of Abrupt Ocean State Transitions in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Caillet, Justine, Jourdain, Nicolas, C, Mathiot, Pierre, Hellmer, Hartmut, H, Mouginot, Jérémie
• Other Authors: Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut de gestion des entreprises -USJ (IGE), Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), ANR-19-CE01-0015,EIS,Elmer/Ice-Sheet : un modèle dédié à l'étude des changements rapides de calottes polaires(2019), European Project: 820575,TiPACCs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Misi; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04301354; https://hal.science/hal-04301354/document; https://hal.science/hal-04301354/file/caillet_JGR_2023.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jc018929

International audience The West Antarctic Ice Sheet has lost mass over the last few decades and has thus contributed significantly to global sea level rise. Warming of the oceanic sub-surface seems to have caused an increase in melting under floating ice shelves, particularly in the Amundsen Sea (Je...