Two-timescale response of a large Antarctic ice shelf to climate change

KA Naughten, J De Rydt, SHR Rosier, A Jenkins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A potentially irreversible threshold in Antarctic ice shelf melting would be crossed if the
ocean cavity beneath the large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf were to become flooded with warm …

A high‐end estimate of sea level rise for practitioners

RSW van de Wal, RJ Nicholls, D Behar… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sea level rise (SLR) is a long‐lasting consequence of climate change because global
anthropogenic warming takes centuries to millennia to equilibrate for the deep ocean and …

Stratospheric aerosol injection can reduce risks to Antarctic ice loss depending on injection location and amount

PB Goddard, B Kravitz, DG MacMartin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is vulnerable to
rapid ice loss in the upcoming decades and centuries. This study examines the effectiveness …

Necessary conditions for warm inflow toward the Filchner Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea

K Daae, T Hattermann, E Darelius… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding changes in Antarctic ice shelf basal melting is a major challenge for
predicting future sea level. Currently, warm Circumpolar Deep Water surrounding Antarctica …

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 …

Observations of modified warm deep water beneath ronne ice shelf, Antarctica, from an autonomous underwater vehicle

PED Davis, A Jenkins, KW Nicholls… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Filchner‐Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) is the world's largest ice shelf by volume. It helps
regulate Antarctica's contribution to global sea level rise, and water mass transformations …

Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model

MJ Hoffman, C Branecky Begeman… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Some ocean modeling studies have identified a potential tipping point from a low to a high
basal melt regime beneath the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS), Antarctica, with significant …

A regime shift on Weddell sea continental shelves with local and remote physical and biogeochemical implications is avoidable in a 2 C scenario

C Nissen, R Timmermann, M Hoppema… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tipping points in the Earth system describe critical thresholds beyond which a single
component, part of the system, or the system as a whole changes from one stable state to …

Seasonal variation of the Antarctic Slope Front occurrence and position estimated from an interpolated hydrographic climatology

E Pauthenet, JB Sallée, S Schmidtko… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Antarctic Slope Front (ASF) is a fundamental feature of the subpolar Southern
Ocean that is still poorly observed. In this study we build a statistical climatology of the …

The Deep‐Water Plume in the Northwestern Weddell Sea, Antarctica: Mean State, Seasonal Cycle and Interannual Variability Influenced by Climate Modes

PJ Llanillo, T Kanzow, MA Janout… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We provide an updated estimate of the annual‐mean, seasonal cycle and interannual
variability of the transports and properties of the Weddell Sea Bottom Water (WSBW) plume …