Basal melt, seasonal water mass transformation, ocean current variability, and deep convection processes along the Amery Ice Shelf calving front, East Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Herraiz-Borreguero, L, Church, JA, Allison, I, Pena-Molino, B, Coleman, R, Tomczak, M, Craven, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2016
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; West Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC011858; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/111337

Despite the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) being the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica, the seasonal variability of the physical processes involved in the AIS-ocean interaction remains undocumented and a robust observational, oceanographic-based basal melt rate estimate has been lacking. Here we use year...