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Webber, Benjamin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8812-5929, Heywood, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-0026, Stevens, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-4405 and Assmann, Karen
(2019)
The impact of overturning and horizontal circulation in Pine Island Trough on ice shelf melt in the eastern Amundsen Sea.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49 (1).
pp. 63-83.
ISSN 0022-3670
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Abstract
The ice shelves around the Amundsen Sea are rapidly melting as a result of the circulation of relatively warm ocean water into their cavities. However, little is known about the processes that determine the variability of this circulation. Here we use an ocean circulation model to diagnose the relative importance of horizontal and vertical (overturning) circulation within Pine Island Trough, leading to Pine Island and Thwaites ice shelves. We show that melt rates and southwardCircumpolar Deep Water (CDW)transports covary over large parts of the continental shelf at interannual to decadal time scales. The dominant external forcing mechanism for this variability is Ekman pumping and suction on the continental shelf and at the shelf break, in agreementwith previous studies.At the continental shelf break, the southward transport of CDWand heat is predominantly barotropic. Farther south within Pine Island Trough, northward and southward barotropic heat transports largely cancel, and the majority of the net southward temperature transport is facilitated by baroclinic and overturning circulations. The overturning circulation is related to water mass transformation and buoyancy gain on the shelf that is primarily facilitated by freshwater input from basal melting.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | antarctica,baroclinic flows,barotropic flows,decadal variability,meridional overturning circulation,oceanography ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1910 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics (former - to 2024) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluid and Solid Mechanics (former - to 2024) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluids & Structures Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Numerical Simulation, Statistics & Data Science |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2018 17:30 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2024 12:40 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68755 |
| DOI: | 10.1175/JPO-D-17-0213.1 |
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