Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2495-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2495-2025
Brief communication
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11 Jul 2025
Brief communication |  | 11 Jul 2025

Brief communication: Sensitivity of Antarctic ice shelf melting to ocean warming across basal melt models

Erwin Lambert and Clara Burgard

Data sets

Data supporting 'Brief Communication: Sensitivity of Antarctic ice-shelf melting to ocean warming across basal melt models' Erwin Lambert and Clara Burgard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14523963

Model code and software

Multimelt, a python framework to apply existing basal melt parameterisation for Antarctic ice shelves (v0.4) C. Burgard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15837949

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Short summary
The effect of ocean warming on Antarctic ice-sheet melting is a major source of uncertainty in estimates of future sea level rise. We compare five melt models to show that ocean warming strongly increases melting. Despite their calibration based on present-day melting, the models disagree on the amount of melt increase. In some important regions, the difference reaches a factor 100. We conclude that using various melt models is important to accurately estimate uncertainties in future sea level rise.
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