ArticleScience advances2022
Antarctic Peninsula warming triggers enhanced basal melt rates throughout West Antarctica.
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- Underestimated accelerated Antarctic phytoplankton net primary production in winter over past decade from spaceborne LiDAR.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Bathymetry of the Antarctic continental shelf and ice shelf cavities from circumpolar gravity anomalies and other data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Impact of glacial meltwater on phytoplankton biomass along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Climate change is associated with higher phytoplankton biomass and longer blooms in the West Antarctic Peninsula.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Antarctic Slope Undercurrent and onshore heat transport driven by ice shelf melting.Science advances · 2024Article
- Amundsen Sea circulation controls bottom upwelling and Antarctic Pine Island and Thwaites ice shelf melting.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Ice shelf basal channel shape determines channelized ice-ocean interactions.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Ocean warming drives rapid dynamic activation of marine-terminating glacier on the west Antarctic Peninsula.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Multi-omics for studying and understanding polar life.Nature communications · 2023Review
- Recently formed Antarctic lakes host less diverse benthic bacterial and diatom communities than their older counterparts.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Editorial: Polar Genomics in a Changing World.Genes · 2023Article
- Wind-Induced Variability of Warm Water on the Southern Bellingshausen Sea Continental Shelf.Journal of geophysical research. Oceans · 2022Article
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Abstract
The observed acceleration of ice shelf basal melt rates throughout West Antarctica could destabilize continental ice sheets and markedly increase global sea level. Explanations for decadal-scale melt intensification have focused on processes local to shelf seas surrounding the ice shelves. A suite of process-based model experiments, guided by CMIP6 forcing scenarios, show that freshwater forcing from the Antarctic Peninsula, propagated between marginal seas by a coastal boundary current, causes enhanced melting throughout West Antarctica. The freshwater anomaly stratifies the ocean in front of the ice shelves and modifies vertical and lateral heat fluxes, enhancing heat transport into ice shelf cavities and increasing basal melt. Increased glacial runoff at the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the first signatures of a warming climate in Antarctica, emerges as a key trigger for increased ice shelf melt rates in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas.
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