Firn air content changes on Antarctic ice shelves under  three future warming scenarios

Veldhuijsen, Sanne B. M.; van de Berg, Willem Jan; Kuipers Munneke, Peter; van den Broeke, Michiel R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1983-2024

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1983-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1983-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

Research article

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29 Apr 2024

Research article |

| 29 Apr 2024

Firn air content changes on Antarctic ice shelves under three future warming scenarios

Sanne B. M. Veldhuijsen, Willem Jan van de Berg, Peter Kuipers Munneke, and Michiel R. van den Broeke

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1983-2024-supplement

Data sets

IMAU-FDMv1.2AD total FAC and accessible FAC (1950-2100) Sanne B. M. Veldhuijsen et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10726834

Model code and software

IMAU-FDM v12AD Sanne B. M. Veldhuijsen et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10723570

Short summary

We use the IMAU firn densification model to simulate the 21st-century evolution of Antarctic firn air content. Ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula and the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf in Dronning Maud Land are particularly vulnerable to total firn air content (FAC) depletion. Our results also underline the potentially large vulnerability of low-accumulation ice shelves to firn air depletion through ice slab formation.