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Ocean variability beneath Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf driven by the Pine Island Bay Gyre strength

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Date
21/12/2022
Author
Dotto, Tiago S.
Heywood, Karen J.
Hall, Rob A.
Scambos, Ted A.
Zheng, Yixi
Nakayama, Yoshihiro
Hyogo, Shuntaro
Snow, Tasha
Wahlin, Anna K.
Wild, Christian
Truffer, Martin
Muto, Atsuhiro
Alley, Karen E.
Boehme, Lars
Bortolotto, Guilherme A.
Tyler, Scott W.
Pettit, Erin
Funder
NERC
Grant ID
NE/S006591/1
Keywords
GB Physical geography
GC Oceanography
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MCC
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Abstract
West Antarctic ice-shelf thinning is primarily caused by ocean-driven basal melting. Here we assess ocean variability below Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf (TEIS) and reveal the importance of local ocean circulation and sea-ice. Measurements obtained from two sub-ice-shelf moorings, spanning January 2020 to March 2021, show warming of the ice-shelf cavity and an increase in meltwater fraction of the upper sub-ice layer. Combined with ocean modelling results, our observations suggest that meltwater from Pine Island Ice Shelf feeds into the TEIS cavity, adding to horizontal heat transport there. We propose that a weakening of the Pine Island Bay gyre caused by prolonged sea-ice cover from April 2020 to March 2021 allowed meltwater-enriched waters to enter the TEIS cavity, which increased the temperature of the upper layer. Our study highlights the sensitivity of ocean circulation beneath ice shelves to local atmosphere-sea-ice-ocean forcing in neighbouring open oceans.
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Dotto , T S , Heywood , K J , Hall , R A , Scambos , T A , Zheng , Y , Nakayama , Y , Hyogo , S , Snow , T , Wahlin , A K , Wild , C , Truffer , M , Muto , A , Alley , K E , Boehme , L , Bortolotto , G A , Tyler , S W & Pettit , E 2022 , ' Ocean variability beneath Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf driven by the Pine Island Bay Gyre strength ' , Nature Communications , vol. 13 , 7840 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35499-5
Publication
Nature Communications
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35499-5
ISSN
2041-1723
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Funding: T.A.S., T.S., C.W., M.T., A.M., K.E.A., S.W.T., and E.P. thank the support from National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant 1929991. T.S.D., K.J.H., R.A.H., and A.K.W. thank the support from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Grant NE/S006419/1. L.B. and G.A.B. thank support from NERC Grant NE/S006591/1. Y.Z. acknowledges support from the China Scholarship Council, the University of East Anglia, and the European Research Council (under H2020-EU.1.1.; Grant 741120). Y.N. received support from the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19K23447, 21K13989) of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. S.H. was supported by JST, the establishment of university fellowships towards the creation of science and technology innovation (Grant JPMJFS2101). Logistics were provided by NSF-U.S. Antarctic Program and NERC-British Antarctic Survey. ITGC Contribution No. ITGC-062.
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https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1466534/v1
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26648

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