Vulnerability of Denman Glacier to ocean heat flux revealed by profiling float observations

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: van Wijk, EM, Rintoul, SR, Wallace, LO, Ribeiro, N, Herraiz-Borreguero, L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2022
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical oceanography; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Denman Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100460; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/153527

Denman Glacier, which drains a marine-based sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet with an ice volume equivalent to 1.5m of global sea level rise, has accelerated and undergone grounding line retreat in recent decades. A deep trough and retrograde bed slope inward of the grounding line leave this gl...