Oceanographic Controls on the Variability of Ice-Shelf Basal Melting and Circulation of Glacial Meltwater in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kimura, Satoshi, Jenkins, Adrian, Regan, Heather, Holland, Paul R., Assmann, Karen M., Whitt, Daniel B., van Wessem, J.M., van de Berg, Willem Jan, Reijmer, Carleen H., Dutrieux, Pierre
• Other Authors: Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Marine and Atmospheric Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Ice-shelf melting; West Antarctica; Geophysics; Oceanography; Forestry; Aquatic Science; Ecology; Condensed Matter Physics; Water Science and Technology; Soil Science; Geochemistry and Petrology; Earth-Surface Processes; Physical and Theoretical Chemistry; Polymers and Plastics; Atmospheric Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Space and Planetary Science; Materials Chemistry; Palaeontology; Austral; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/379883

Ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Embayment have thinned, accelerating the seaward flow of ice sheets upstream over recent decades. This imbalance is caused by an increase in the ocean-driven melting of the ice shelves. Observations and models show that the ocean heat content reaching the ice shelves...