Modeling intensive ocean-cryosphere interactions in Lutzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kusahara, K, Hirano, D, Fujii, M, Fraser, AD, Tamura, T
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2021
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical oceanography; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Weddell; Shirase Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; Totten Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-240; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/143516

Basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves accounts for more than half of the mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Many studies have focused on active basal melting at ice shelves in the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Seas and the Totten Ice shelf, East Antarctica. In these regions, the intrusion of Circump...