Persistent warm-eddy transport to Antarctic ice shelves driven by enhanced summer westerlies.
In: Nature Communications, Jg. 15 (2024-01-22), Heft 1, S. 1-12
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The offshore ocean heat supplied to the Antarctic continental shelves by warm eddies has the potential to greatly impact the melting rates of ice shelves and subsequent global sea level rise. While featured in modeling and some observational studies, the processes around how these warm eddies form and overcome the dynamic sub-surface barrier of the Antarctic Slope Front over the upper continental slope has not yet been clarified. Here we report on the detailed observations of persistent eddies carrying warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) onto the continental shelf of Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, using subsurface mooring and hydrographic section data from 2013-2015. We show the warm-eddy transport is most active when the summer westerlies strengthen, which promotes the upwelling of CDW and initiates eddy formation and intrusions. Our study highlights the important role of warm eddies in the melting of Antarctica’s ice shelves, both now and into the future.The offshore heat supplied to the Antarctic continental shelves by warm eddies has a potential impact on the melting of ice shelves. Here, how warm eddies form and intrude onto the continental shelf and play an important role in ice shelf melting is shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Persistent warm-eddy transport to Antarctic ice shelves driven by enhanced summer westerlies.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Gao, Libao ; Yuan, Xiaojun ; Cai, Wenju ; Guo, Guijun ; Yu, Weidong ; Shi, Jiuxin ; Qiao, Fangli ; Wei, Zexun ; Williams, Guy D. |
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Zeitschrift: | Nature Communications, Jg. 15 (2024-01-22), Heft 1, S. 1-12 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2041-1723 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-024-45010-x |
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