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Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1969-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1969-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
Research article
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12 Jun 2018
Research article |  | 12 Jun 2018

Antarctic sub-shelf melt rates via PICO

Ronja Reese, Torsten Albrecht, Matthias Mengel, Xylar Asay-Davis, and Ricarda Winkelmann

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Floating ice shelves surround most of Antarctica and ocean-driven melting at their bases is a major reason for its current sea-level contribution. We developed a simple model based on a box model approach that captures the vertical ocean circulation generally present in ice-shelf cavities and allows simulating melt rates in accordance with physical processes beneath the ice. We test the model for all Antarctic ice shelves and find that melt rates and melt patterns agree well with observations.
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