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Europa's ocean translates interior tidal heating patterns to the ice-ocean boundary
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dc.contributor.author | Lemasquerier, Daphné | |
dc.contributor.author | Bierson, Carver | |
dc.contributor.author | Soderlund, Krista | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-19T13:30:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-19T13:30:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-12-14 | |
dc.identifier | 296754782 | |
dc.identifier | 955b4c85-7445-4400-9a11-14d9f7979d7b | |
dc.identifier | 85180180382 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lemasquerier , D , Bierson , C & Soderlund , K 2023 , ' Europa's ocean translates interior tidal heating patterns to the ice-ocean boundary ' , AGU Advances , vol. 4 , no. 6 , e2023AV000994 . https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.11718 , https://doi.org/10.1029/2023av000994 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2576-604X | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-9795-6214/work/149333074 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/28900 | |
dc.description | The authors thank the University of Texas Institute of Geophysics and Jackson School of Geosciences for funding. | en |
dc.description.abstract | The circulation in Europa's ocean determines the degree of thermal, mechanical and chemical coupling between the ice shell and the silicate mantle. Using global direct numerical simulations, we investigate the effect of heterogeneous tidal heating in the silicate mantle on rotating thermal convection in the ocean and its consequences on ice shell thickness. Under the assumption of no salinity or ocean-ice shell feedbacks, we show that convection largely transposes the latitudinal variations of tidal heating from the seafloor to the ice, leading to a higher oceanic heat flux in polar regions. Longitudinal variations are efficiently transferred when boundary-driven thermal winds develop, but are reduced in the presence of strong zonal flows and may vanish in planetary regimes. If spatially homogeneous radiogenic heating is dominant in the silicate mantle, the ocean's contribution to ice shell thickness variations is negligible compared to tidal heating within the ice. If tidal heating is instead dominant in the mantle, the situation is reversed and the ocean controls the pole-to-equator thickness contrast, as well as possible longitudinal variations. | |
dc.format.extent | 21 | |
dc.format.extent | 2618595 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | AGU Advances | en |
dc.subject | Europa | en |
dc.subject | Ocean dynamics | en |
dc.subject | Rotating thermal convection | en |
dc.subject | Tidal heating | en |
dc.subject | Numerical modelling | en |
dc.subject | QA Mathematics | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QA | en |
dc.title | Europa's ocean translates interior tidal heating patterns to the ice-ocean boundary | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Applied Mathematics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.48550/arXiv.2311.11718 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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