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 Maria K., Schröder, Michael, Vignes, Lucie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: VDP::Oseanografi: 452; VDP::Oceanography: 452; Filchner Trough; Ronne Ice Shelf; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2766143; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088119

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...