How Does the Ocean Melt Antarctic Ice Shelves?

MG Rosevear, B Gayen, CA Vreugdenhil… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The present-day state and future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet depend on the rate at which the
ocean melts its fringing ice shelves. Ocean heat must cross many physical and dynamical …

Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles

ME Wengrove, EC Pettit, JD Nash, RH Jackson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Feedbacks between ice melt, glacier flow and ocean circulation can rapidly accelerate ice
loss at tidewater glaciers and alter projections of sea-level rise. At the core of these …

Mixing, water transformation, and melting close to a tidewater glacier

ME Inall, A Sundfjord, F Cottier, ML Korte… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Marine‐terminating glacier fjords play a central role in the transport of oceanic heat toward
ice sheets, regulating their melt. Mixing processes near glacial termini are key to this …

Turbulent dynamics of buoyant melt plumes adjacent near‐vertical glacier ice

JD Nash, K Weiss, ME Wengrove… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
At marine‐terminating glaciers, both buoyant plumes and local currents energize turbulent
exchanges that control ice melt. Because of challenges in making centimeter‐scale …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of internal solitary waves by the Mackenzie River plume in the coastal Arctic Ocean

W Min, Q Li, Z Liu, B Zhao - Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic …, 2024 - Elsevier
High-resolution spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images have verified the wide
existence of internal solitary waves (ISWs) over the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. A major ISW …

Direct Measurements of Melt Rate and Boundary Layer Characteristics at Alaskan Icebergs

K Weiss - 2024 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Marine-terminating glaciers are pathways for terrestrial ice to reach Arctic waters, thereby
contributing to sea level rise and changing global circulation patterns. One mechanism for …