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DOI	10.1029/2020JC016305
	The Impact of the Amundsen Sea Freshwater Balance on Ocean Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
	Bett D.T.; Holland P.R.; Naveira Garabato A.C.; Jenkins A.; Dutrieux P.; Kimura S.; Fleming A.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	21699275
卷号	125 期号:9
英文摘要	The Amundsen Sea has the highest thinning rates of ice shelves in Antarctica. This imbalance is caused by changes in ocean melting induced by warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) intrusions. The resulting changing freshwater balance could affect the on-shelf currents and mixing. However, a clear understanding of the sources and sinks of freshwater in the region is lacking. Here we use a model of the Amundsen Sea, with passive freshwater tracers, to investigate the relative magnitudes and spatial distributions of the different freshwater components. In the surface layer and as a depth average, all freshwater tracer concentrations are of comparable magnitude, though on a depth average, sea ice and ice shelf are largest. The total freshwater tracer distribution is similar to that of the ice-shelf tracer field. This implies a potential for ice-shelf meltwater feedbacks, whereby abundant ice-shelf meltwater alters the ocean circulation and stratification, affecting melting. Ice-shelf and sea-ice freshwater fluxes have the largest interannual variability. The effect of including grounded icebergs and iceberg freshwater flux are studied in detail. The presence of icebergs increases CDW intrusions that reach the base of ice shelves. This suggests another possible feedback mechanism, whereby more icebergs induce greater ice-shelf melting and hence more icebergs. However, the strength of this potential feedback is dependent on poorly constrained sea-ice model parameters. These results imply that poorly constrained parameters relating to the ocean freshwater balance, such as those relating to icebergs and sea ice, impact predictions for melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. ©2020. The Authors.
英文关键词	Amundsen Sea; freshwater; grounded icebergs; West Antarctica
语种	英语
来源期刊	Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/186666
作者单位	British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bett D.T.,Holland P.R.,Naveira Garabato A.C.,et al. The Impact of the Amundsen Sea Freshwater Balance on Ocean Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet[J],2020,125(9).
APA	Bett D.T..,Holland P.R..,Naveira Garabato A.C..,Jenkins A..,Dutrieux P..,...&Fleming A..(2020).The Impact of the Amundsen Sea Freshwater Balance on Ocean Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,125(9).
MLA	Bett D.T.,et al."The Impact of the Amundsen Sea Freshwater Balance on Ocean Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet".Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 125.9(2020).