ice shelf basal melting
Regional changes in icescape impact shelf circulation and basal melting
... Filchner Ice Shelf can decrease the thermohaline ventilation within the ice shelf cavity and subse- quently decrease the ice shelf basal ...sea ice cover and ...
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Intercomparison of Antarctic ice-shelf, ocean, and sea-ice interactions simulated by MetROMS-iceshelf and FESOM 1.4
... Antarctic ice-shelf cavities, and simulate ther- modynamics at the ice-shelf/ocean ...as ice shelves interact directly with the ocean and indi- rectly with sea ...
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Intrinsic processes drive variability in basal melting of the Totten Glacier Ice Shelf
... understanding ice shelf-ocean interaction. Basal melting can vary periodically with low-frequency variability, even in the absence of interannual atmospheric ...with ice shelf ...
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Responses of basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves to the climatic forcing of the last glacial maximum and CO2 doubling
... Antarctic ice sheet and thinning of the ice shelves (Pritchard et ...Antarctic ice sheet under climatic conditions both warmer and colder than the present, represented by the Last Interglacial period ...
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Sensitivity of the Weddell Sea sector ice streams to sub-shelf melting and surface accumulation
... of ice shelves, and the consequent decrease in buttressing at the mouths of fast-flowing ice streams, is the main cause of the observed dynamic thinning identified in the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of ...
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Spatial and temporal variations in basal melting at Nivlisen ice shelf, East Antarctica, derived from phase-sensitive radars
... of ice shelves vary widely around Antarctica, and basal melting is a major component of ice shelf mass ...of basal melting at a unique spatial and temporal resolution for ...
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Detecting high spatial variability of ice shelf basal mass balance, Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica
... Abstract. Ice shelves control the dynamic mass loss of ice sheets through buttressing and their integrity depends on the spatial variability of their basal mass balance (BMB), ...douin Ice ...
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Channelized Melting Drives Thinning Under a Rapidly Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf
... along-channel ice shelf thinning in the high-resolution satellite altimetry record across DIS has allowed us here to explore ocean-driven sub-ice shelf melting ...processes. Ice ...
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The sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to glacial–interglacial oceanic forcing
... Our basal melting scheme is implemented in such a way that the melting at the grounding line ...the ice shelves (Eq. 11). This approach is supported by sub-shelf melting rate ...
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Investigating the impact of ocean warming on Antarctic ice shelves
... Antarctic ice sheet contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by over 50 ...Antarctic ice sheet and subsequently, projections of future sea level rise, depends strongly on interactions with the ...
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Freshening by glacial meltwater enhances melting of ice shelves and reduces formation of Antarctic Bottom Water
... Antarctic shelf waters are mostly cold, and basal melt rates are low at many ice shelves, indicating that glacial meltwater input is insufficient to prevent DSW formation, as found at Cape Darnley ...
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Can SMOS Ocean Salinity Data Detect a Link Between Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Freshwater Flux from Basal Melting of Antarctic ice shelves?
... the ice shelves of ...the ice shelf (Font et ...and basal melt in ice shelves around Antarctica, to measure Antarctic-wide freshwater flux, and to study regional trends in freshwater ...
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Brief communication: widespread potential for seawater infiltration on Antarctic ice shelves
... e.g. ice shelf thickness, commonly used in ice sheet mass flux studies, or detection of basal marine ice ...an ice shelf can also potentially affect iceberg calving rates ...
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Ocean stratification and low melt rates at the Ross Ice Shelf grounding zone
... with ice-shelf melting elsewhere (Gagliardini et ...Antarctic ice shelf, the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS), near the Whillans Ice Stream grounding ...Antarctic ice ...
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Representation of basal melting at the grounding line in ice flow models
... of ice shelf melt rates immediately downstream of the grounding ...apply basal melt over the entire par- tially floating elements, or (3) apply some melt over partially floating ...
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Response to Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf cavity warming in a coupled ocean–ice sheet model – Part 1: The ocean perspective
... the ice-shelf front and (2) at loca- tions with a substantial increase in water column ...the ice-shelf front, increasing melt rates in the A1B scenario lead to a reduction of thickness (only) ...
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Ice shelf basal melt rates from a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) record for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
... Ocean-induced basal melting is responsible for much of the Amundsen Sea Embayment ice loss in recent decades, but the total magnitude and spatiotemporal evolu- tion of this melt is poorly ...estimate ...
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Modeling the effect of Ross Ice Shelf melting on the Southern Ocean in quasi-equilibrium
... of basal melting of the Ross Ice Shelf (BMRIS) on the Southern Ocean (ocean southward of 35 ◦ S) in quasi-equilibrium, numerical experiments with and without the BMRIS effect were performed ...
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How do icebergs affect the Greenland ice sheet under pre-industrial conditions? – a model study with a fully coupled ice-sheet–climate model
... the ice-sheet accord- ing to the surface mass balance, ice flow and basal ...of ice flow, namely inland ice, ice streams and ice ...The ice flow of the grounded ...
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Sensitivity of the dynamics of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, to climate forcing for the next 50 years
... marine ice sheet instability. Their results also show that limited ice front retreats do not affect grounding line dy- namics, while changes in basal melting rates under floating ice ...
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