Modeling ocean circulation and ice shelf melt in the Bellingshausen Sea

S Hyogo, Y Nakayama… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ice shelves in the Bellingshausen Sea are melting and thinning rapidly due to modified
Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) intrusions carrying heat toward ice‐shelf cavities …

[HTML][HTML] A novel hydrographic gridded data set for the northern Antarctic Peninsula

TS Dotto, MM Mata, R Kerr… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract The northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) is a highly dynamic transitional zone
between the subpolar-polar and oceanic-coastal environments, and it is located in an area …

Influence of seasonally varying sea-ice concentration and subsurface ocean heat on sea-ice thickness and sea-ice seasonality for a 'warm-shelf'region in Antarctica

BT Saenz, DC McKee, SC Doney, DG Martinson… - Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Processes driving changes in sea-ice seasonality and sea-ice thickness were explored for a
'warm-shelf'region along the West Antarctic Peninsula using vertically coupled sea-ice …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics of a barotropic current impinging on an ice front

N Steiger, E Darelius, S Kimura… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The vertical front of ice shelves represents a topographic barrier for barotropic currents that
transport a considerable amount of heat toward the ice shelves. The blocking effect of the ice …

[HTML][HTML] Propagation of barotropic Kelvin waves around Antarctica

DJ Webb, RM Holmes, P Spence, MH England - Ocean Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Barotropic (ie, depth-uniform) coastal oceanic Kelvin waves can provide rapid
teleconnections from climate and weather events in one location to remote regions of the …

Spatially coherent intraseasonal velocity fluctuations on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf

DC McKee, DG Martinson - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze several year‐long moored current meter records collected on the midshelf and
shelf break of the western Antarctic Peninsula in order to describe the major features of the …

[HTML][HTML] The ice front as a topographic barrier for ocean heat transport

N Steiger - 2021 - bora.uib.no
Antarctic ice shelves are the link between the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The floating ice shelves restrain the seaward flow of the grounded ice, which is balanced by …