Warm Circumpolar Deep Water at the Western Getz Ice Shelf Front, Antarctica

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Assmann, Karen, Darelius, Elin Maria K., Wåhlin, Anna K., Kim, Tae Wan, Lee, Sang Hoon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2019
• Subjects: Antarctica; ice shelves; Circumpolar Deep Water; Polar oceanography; Polaroseanografi; VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452; VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; Amundsen Sea; Siple; Getz; Getz Ice Shelf; Siple Island; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/21577; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl081354

The Getz Ice Shelf is one of the largest sources of fresh water from ice shelf basal melt in Antarctica. We present new observations from three moorings west of Siple Island 2016–2018. All moorings show a persistent flow of modified Circumpolar Deep Water toward the western Getz Ice Shelf. Unmodifie...