Topographic Shelf Waves Control Seasonal Melting Near Antarctic Ice Shelf Grounding Lines

• Main Authors: Sun, Sainan, Hattermann, Tore, Pattyn, Frank, Nicholls, Keith, Drews, Reinhard, Berger, Sophie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Géographie physique; Sciences de la terre et du cosmos; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Gunnerus Bank; Roi Baudouin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/296667; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/296667/4/Sun2019_GRL.pdf; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/296667/3/ApRES_GRL_revised2.pdf

The buttressing potential of ice shelves is modulated by changes in subshelf melting, in response to changing ocean conditions. We analyze the temporal variability in subshelf melting using an autonomous phase-sensitive radio-echo sounder near the grounding line of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf in East...