Seasonal Outflow of Ice Shelf Water Across the Front of the Filchner Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea, Antarctica

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Darelius, Elin Maria K., Sallee, Jean-Bapiste
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2018
• Subjects: Austral; Filchner Ice Shelf; Filchner Trough; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/18852; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl076320

The ice shelf water (ISW) found in the Filchner Trough, located in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica, is climatically important; it descends into the deep Weddell Sea contributing to bottom water formation, and it blocks warm off‐shelf waters from accessing the Filchner ice shelf cavity. Yet the...