Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes
Antarctic shelf ocean warming affects melt of ice shelf/sheets and sea ice but projected changes vary vastly across climate models. A projected increase in El Niño variability has been found to slow future mid-latitude Southern Ocean warming but how this impacts the Antarctic shelf ocean is unknown....
Published in: | Nature Climate Change |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Springer Nature
2023
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_82633 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01610-x |
Summary: | Antarctic shelf ocean warming affects melt of ice shelf/sheets and sea ice but projected changes vary vastly across climate models. A projected increase in El Niño variability has been found to slow future mid-latitude Southern Ocean warming but how this impacts the Antarctic shelf ocean is unknown. Here we show that a projected increase in El Niño variability accelerates Antarctic shelf ocean warming, hastening ice shelf/sheet melt but slowing sea ice reduction. |
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