On-shelf circulation of warm water toward the Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica

D Hirano, T Tamura, K Kusahara, M Fujii… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Totten Glacier in East Antarctica, with an ice volume equivalent to> 3.5 m of
global sea-level rise, is grounded below sea level and, therefore, vulnerable to ocean …

Heat transport across the Antarctic Slope Front controlled by cross-slope salinity gradients

Y Si, AL Stewart, I Eisenman - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
The Antarctic Slope Front (ASF) is a strong gradient in water mass properties close to the
Antarctic margins, separating warm water from the Antarctic ice sheet. Heat transport across …

Subglacial discharge accelerates future retreat of Denman and Scott Glaciers, East Antarctica

T Pelle, JS Greenbaum, CF Dow, A Jenkins… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ice shelf basal melting is the primary mechanism driving mass loss from the Antarctic Ice
Sheet, yet it is unknown how the localized melt enhancement from subglacial discharge will …

On the multiscale oceanic heat transports toward the bases of the Antarctic ice shelves

Z Wang, C Liu, C Cheng, Q Qin, L Yan… - Ocean-Land …, 2023 - spj.science.org
The mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is important to global sea-level change.
The AIS loses mass mainly through basal melting and subsequent calving of the Antarctic …

Satellite record reveals 1960s acceleration of Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica

R Li, Y Cheng, T Chang, DE Gwyther, M Forbes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Wilkes Land and Totten Glacier (TG) in East Antarctica (EA) have been losing ice
mass significantly since 1989. There is a lack of knowledge of long-term mass balance in the …

The circum-Antarctic ice-shelves respond to a more positive Southern Annular Mode with regionally varied melting

D Verfaillie, C Pelletier, H Goosse… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere cryosphere has recently shown regionally-contrasted
responses to climate change, in particular to the positive phases of the Southern Annular …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting circulation and water masses over the East Antarctic margin (80–150° E)

K Yamazaki, K Katsumata, D Hirano, D Nomura… - Progress in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Full-depth hydrographic sections of the BROKE experiment in 1996 (across the Antarctic
margin from 80 to 150° E; Bindoff et al., 2000) were revisited for the first time during the …

Widespread grounding line retreat of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica, over the 21st century

T Pelle, M Morlighem, Y Nakayama… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Totten Glacier (TG), the primary ice discharger of East Antarctica, contains 3.85 m sea level
rise equivalent (SLRe) ice mass and has displayed ocean‐driven dynamic change since at …

Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice

J Lauber, T Hattermann, L de Steur, E Darelius… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding how climate change influences ocean-driven melting of the Antarctic ice
shelves is one of the greatest challenges for projecting future sea level rise. The East …

Wind‐driven seasonal intrusion of modified Circumpolar Deep Water onto the continental shelf in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

G Guo, L Gao, J Shi, Y Zu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intrusion of warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) is critical to heat transport onto
the continental shelf around Antarctica, with substantial impacts on basal melting of ice …