Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales
Ocean-driven basal melting of Amundsen Sea ice shelves has triggered acceleration, thinning, and grounding line retreat on many West Antarctic outlet glaciers. Here we present the first year-long (2014) record of basal melt rate at sub-weekly resolution from a location on the outer Pine Island Ice S...
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ftunivnorthumb:oai:nrl.northumbria.ac.uk:42667 2023-05-15T13:24:03+02:00 Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales Davis, Peter E. D. Jenkins, Adrian Nicholls, Keith W. Brennan, Paul V. Abrahamsen, E. Povl Heywood, Karen J. Dutrieux, Pierre Cho, Kyoung‐Ho Kim, Tae‐Wan 2018-11-01 text https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42667/ https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014464 https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42667/1/Variability%20in%20basal%20melting%20beneath%20Pine%20Island%20Ice%20Shelf%20on%20weekly%20to%20monthly%20timescales.pdf en eng American Geophysical Union https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42667/1/Variability%20in%20basal%20melting%20beneath%20Pine%20Island%20Ice%20Shelf%20on%20weekly%20to%20monthly%20timescales.pdf Davis, Peter E. D., Jenkins, Adrian, Nicholls, Keith W., Brennan, Paul V., Abrahamsen, E. Povl, Heywood, Karen J., Dutrieux, Pierre, Cho, Kyoung‐Ho and Kim, Tae‐Wan (2018) Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123 (11). pp. 8655-8669. ISSN 2169-9275 cc_by_4_0 CC-BY F700 Ocean Sciences F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences Article PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivnorthumb https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014464 2022-09-25T06:11:45Z Ocean-driven basal melting of Amundsen Sea ice shelves has triggered acceleration, thinning, and grounding line retreat on many West Antarctic outlet glaciers. Here we present the first year-long (2014) record of basal melt rate at sub-weekly resolution from a location on the outer Pine Island Ice Shelf. Adjustment of the upper thermocline to local wind forced variability in the vertical Ekman velocity is the dominant control on basal melting at weekly to monthly timescales. Atmosphere-ice-ocean surface heat fluxes or changes in advection of modified Circumpolar Deep Water play no discernible role at these timescales. We propose that during other years, a deepening of the thermocline in Pine Island Bay driven by longer timescale processes may have suppressed the impact of local wind forcing on high-frequency upper thermocline height variability and basal melting. This highlights the complex interplay between the different processes and their timescales that set the basal melt rate beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Pine Island Bay Sea ice Northumbria University, Newcastle: Northumbria Research Link (NRL) Amundsen Sea Antarctic Island Bay ENVELOPE(-109.085,-109.085,59.534,59.534) Pine Island Bay ENVELOPE(-102.000,-102.000,-74.750,-74.750) Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 123 11 8655 8669 |
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F700 Ocean Sciences F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences Davis, Peter E. D. Jenkins, Adrian Nicholls, Keith W. Brennan, Paul V. Abrahamsen, E. Povl Heywood, Karen J. Dutrieux, Pierre Cho, Kyoung‐Ho Kim, Tae‐Wan Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales |
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Ocean-driven basal melting of Amundsen Sea ice shelves has triggered acceleration, thinning, and grounding line retreat on many West Antarctic outlet glaciers. Here we present the first year-long (2014) record of basal melt rate at sub-weekly resolution from a location on the outer Pine Island Ice Shelf. Adjustment of the upper thermocline to local wind forced variability in the vertical Ekman velocity is the dominant control on basal melting at weekly to monthly timescales. Atmosphere-ice-ocean surface heat fluxes or changes in advection of modified Circumpolar Deep Water play no discernible role at these timescales. We propose that during other years, a deepening of the thermocline in Pine Island Bay driven by longer timescale processes may have suppressed the impact of local wind forcing on high-frequency upper thermocline height variability and basal melting. This highlights the complex interplay between the different processes and their timescales that set the basal melt rate beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf. |
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Davis, Peter E. D. Jenkins, Adrian Nicholls, Keith W. Brennan, Paul V. Abrahamsen, E. Povl Heywood, Karen J. Dutrieux, Pierre Cho, Kyoung‐Ho Kim, Tae‐Wan |
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Davis, Peter E. D. Jenkins, Adrian Nicholls, Keith W. Brennan, Paul V. Abrahamsen, E. Povl Heywood, Karen J. Dutrieux, Pierre Cho, Kyoung‐Ho Kim, Tae‐Wan |
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Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales |
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Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales |
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Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales |
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Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales |
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Variability in Basal Melting Beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf on Weekly to Monthly Timescales |
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variability in basal melting beneath pine island ice shelf on weekly to monthly timescales |
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American Geophysical Union |
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https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42667/ https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014464 https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42667/1/Variability%20in%20basal%20melting%20beneath%20Pine%20Island%20Ice%20Shelf%20on%20weekly%20to%20monthly%20timescales.pdf |
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ENVELOPE(-109.085,-109.085,59.534,59.534) ENVELOPE(-102.000,-102.000,-74.750,-74.750) |
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Amundsen Sea Antarctic Island Bay Pine Island Bay |
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