An oceanic heat transport pathway to the Amundsen Sea Embayment
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Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough
[1] Glaciers which drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) into the Amundsen Sea are accelerating and thinning rapidly. These observations have been attributed to the regional oceanography whereby heat contained within Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) drives the basal melting of floating glaciers. On the basis of new data we calculate that 2.8 terra-Watts (10) of oceanic heat flow onto the contin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2169-9275,2169-9291
DOI: 10.1002/2015jc011402