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Yoon, Seung-Tae, Lee, Won Sang, Nam, SungHyun, Lee, Choon-Ki, Yun, Sukyoung, Heywood, Karen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-0026, Boehme, Lars, Zheng, Yixi, Lee, Inhee, Choi, Yeon, Jenkins, Adrian, Jin, Emilia Kyung, Larter, Robert, Wellner, Julia, Dutrieux, Pierre and Bradley, Alexander T.
(2022)
Ice front retreat reconfigures meltwater-driven gyres modulating ocean heat delivery to an Antarctic ice shelf.
Nature Communications, 13.
ISSN 2041-1723
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Abstract
Pine Island Ice Shelf (PIIS) buttresses the Pine Island Glacier, the key contributor to sea-level rise. PIIS has thinned owing to ocean-driven melting, and its calving front has retreated, leading to buttressing loss. PIIS melting depends primarily on the thermocline variability in its front. Furthermore, local ocean circulation shifts adjust heat transport within Pine Island Bay (PIB), yet oceanic processes underlying the ice front retreat remain unclear. Here, we report a PIB double-gyre that moves with the PIIS calving front and hypothesise that it controls ocean heat input towards PIIS. Glacial melt generates cyclonic and anticyclonic gyres near and off PIIS, and meltwater outflows converge into the anticyclonic gyre with a deep-convex-downward thermocline. The double-gyre migrated eastward as the calving front retreated, placing the anticyclonic gyre over a shallow seafloor ridge, reducing the ocean heat input towards PIIS. Reconfigurations of meltwater-driven gyres associated with moving ice boundaries might be crucial in modulating ocean heat delivery to glacial ice.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This study was sponsored by a research grant from the Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (KIMST20190361; PM21020) and supported by the National Science Foundation and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC: Grants NE/S006419/1 and NE/S006591/1) for the TARSAN and the THOR projects, components of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC). ITGC Contribution No. ITGC-061. Data statement: The numerical simulation was carried out on ARCHER2, the U.K. national HPC facility (http://archer2.ac.uk/). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | chemistry(all),biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology(all),physics and astronomy(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1600 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2022 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 11:33 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82962 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-022-27968-8 |
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