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Ocean heat drives rapid basal melt of the Totten Ice Shelf

Published:2016-12-02 Issue:12 Volume:2 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Rintoul Stephen Rich¹²^ORCID,Silvano Alessandro²³^ORCID,Pena-Molino Beatriz¹^ORCID,van Wijk Esmee²,Rosenberg Mark¹,Greenbaum Jamin Stevens⁴^ORCID,Blankenship Donald D.⁴

Affiliation:

1. Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

4. Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA.

Abstract

Inflow of warm water drives rapid melt of the Totten Ice Shelf, demonstrating that this sector of East Antarctica is exposed to ocean heat.

Funder

Australian Antarctic Division

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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