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Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3253-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3253-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
Brief communication
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25 Aug 2025
Brief communication |  | 25 Aug 2025

Brief communication: Representation of heat conduction into ice in marine ice shelf melt modelling

Jonathan Wiskandt and Nicolas C. Jourdain

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In ocean models, submarine melt of ice shelves is parameterized based on the heat budget at the ice–ocean interface. The heat budget includes the ocean heat transport, the heat conducted into the ice, and the heat available for melting. Here we compare three different approaches to estimating the heat conduction into the ice. We show that the most used approximation is not the most accurate one: it overestimates the melt by up to 25 % compared to the more accurate approximations.
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