Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

CR Stokes, NJ Abram, MJ Bentley, TL Edwards… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth's glacier ice (about
52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming …

Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater

Q Li, MH England, AMC Hogg, SR Rintoul, AK Morrison - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The abyssal ocean circulation is a key component of the global meridional overturning
circulation, cycling heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients throughout the world ocean,. The …

Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin

KL Gunn, SR Rintoul, MH England… - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
Dense water formed near Antarctica, known as Antarctic bottom water (AABW), drives deep
ocean circulation and supplies oxygen to the abyssal ocean. Observations show that AABW …

Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

Unveiling high concentrations of small microplastics (11–500 μm) in surface water samples from the southern Weddell Sea off Antarctica

C Leistenschneider, F Wu, S Primpke, G Gerdts… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent studies have highlighted the prevalence of microplastic (MP) pollution in the global
marine environment and these pollutants have been found to contaminate even remote …

Heat transport across the Antarctic Slope Front controlled by cross-slope salinity gradients

Y Si, AL Stewart, I Eisenman - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The Antarctic Slope Front (ASF) is a strong gradient in water mass properties close to the
Antarctic margins, separating warm water from the Antarctic ice sheet. Heat transport across …

How does Antarctic bottom water cross the Southern Ocean?

A Solodoch, AL Stewart, AMC Hogg… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), which fills the global ocean abyss, is derived from
dense water that forms in several distinct Antarctic shelf regions. Previous modeling studies …

Thermal responses to Antarctic ice shelf melt in an eddy-rich global ocean–sea ice model

R Moorman, AK Morrison, A McC. Hogg - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The response of near-Antarctic waters to freshening by increased glacial melt is investigated
using a high-resolution (0.1°) global ocean–sea ice model with realistic Antarctic water …

Historical and future projected warming of Antarctic Shelf Bottom Water in CMIP6 models

A Purich, MH England - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding warming on the Antarctic shelf is critical for projecting changes in Antarctic
ice shelves and ice sheets. Here we assess Antarctic Shelf Bottom Water (ASBW) …

Observational evidence for on-shelf heat transport driven by dense water export in the Weddell Sea

E Darelius, K Daae, V Dundas, I Fer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The transport of oceanic heat towards the Antarctic continental margin is central to the mass
balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Recent modeling efforts challenge our view on where and …