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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2205-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2205-2020
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13 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2020

Impact of West Antarctic ice shelf melting on Southern Ocean hydrography

Yoshihiro Nakayama, Ralph Timmermann, and Hartmut H. Hellmer

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Previous studies have shown accelerations of West Antarctic glaciers, implying that basal melt rates of these glaciers were small and increased in the middle of the 20th century. We conduct coupled sea ice–ice shelf–ocean simulations with different levels of ice shelf melting from West Antarctic glaciers. This study reveals how far and how quickly glacial meltwater from ice shelves in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas propagates downstream into the Ross Sea and along the East Antarctic coast.