The Antarctic Slope Current in a changing climate

AF Thompson, AL Stewart, P Spence… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) is a coherent circulation feature that rings the
Antarctic continental shelf and regulates the flow of water toward the Antarctic coastline. The …

Challenges and prospects in ocean circulation models

B Fox-Kemper, A Adcroft, CW Böning… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al..
Over the past decade, ocean circulation models evolved through improved understanding …

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 …

How much, how fast?: A science review and outlook for research on the instability of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier in the 21st century

TA Scambos, RE Bell, RB Alley… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Constraining how much and how fast the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) will change in the
coming decades has recently been identified as the highest priority in Antarctic research …

The sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to a changing climate: Past, present, and future

TL Noble, EJ Rohling, ARA Aitken… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐
enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the …

CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica

A Barthel, C Agosta, CM Little, T Hattermann… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The ice sheet model intercomparison project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) effort brings together the
ice sheet and climate modeling communities to gain understanding of the ice sheet …

Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

Circum‐Antarctic shoreward heat transport derived from an eddy‐and tide‐resolving simulation

AL Stewart, A Klocker… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Almost all heat reaching the bases of Antarctica's ice shelves originates from warm
Circumpolar Deep Water in the open Southern Ocean. This study quantifies the roles of …

[HTML][HTML] Climate tipping point interactions and cascades: a review

N Wunderling, AS von der Heydt… - Earth System …, 2024 - esd.copernicus.org
Climate tipping elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical
thresholds (tipping points) under ongoing global warming, with substantial impacts on the …

Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf

A Wåhlin, KE Alley, C Begeman, Ø Hegrenæs… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Knowledge gaps about how the ocean melts Antarctica's ice shelves, borne from a lack of
observations, lead to large uncertainties in sea level predictions. Using high-resolution …