Affiliation:
1. Korea Polar Research Institute Incheon South Korea
2. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Research Institute of Oceanography Seoul National University Seoul South Korea
Abstract
AbstractThe inflow of warm and salty Circumpolar Deep Water affects the melting of the ice shelf on the Amundsen Sea, a significant contributor to global sea level rise. Multi‐year mooring data (2014–2016 and 2018–2020) from the front of the Dotson Ice Shelf show the modified Circumpolar Deep Water layer was thicker during 2018–2020 than during 2014–2016. During 2014–2016, Ocean surface stress curl influenced the barotropic process and strengthened southward velocity, while during 2018–2020, it caused lift and downwelling of thermocline depth, increasing the impact of the baroclinic process in ocean circulation. The heat transport to the ice shelf during 2018–2020 (57.42 MW m−1) was half as much as it was during 2014–2016 (111.06 MW m−1) due to a weaker lower layer current. The difference in ocean circulation between two periods, caused by a difference in warm layer thickness, ultimately impacts the heat transport entering the ice shelf cavity.
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geophysics
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