A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ROLE OF PRECIPITATION AND AIR-SEA GAS EXCHANGE OF CIRCUMPOLAR WATERS IN THE EASTERN AMUNDSEN SEA, ANTARCTICA

• Main Author: Cousens, Virginia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 2023
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses/2300; https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/context/theses/article/3294/viewcontent/Cousens_uri_0186M_13099.pdf

Pine Island Glacier in the remote Amundsen Sea has exhibited some of the most pronounced thinning and retreat in Western Antarctica in recent decades, resulting in significant influx of freshwater to the region. These dynamic changes are caused by climate sensitive processes from warming ocean curre...