How Does the Ocean Melt Antarctic Ice Shelves?

MG Rosevear, B Gayen, CA Vreugdenhil… - Annual Review of …, 2025 - annualreviews.org
The present-day state and future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet depend on the rate at which the
ocean melts its fringing ice shelves. Ocean heat must cross many physical and dynamical …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level

A Aschwanden, TC Bartholomaus, DJ Brinkerhoff… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Accurately projecting mass loss from ice sheets is of critical societal importance. However,
despite recent improvements in ice sheet models, our analysis of a recent effort to project ice …

[HTML][HTML] Climate intervention on a high-emissions pathway could delay but not prevent West Antarctic Ice Sheet demise

J Sutter, A Jones, TL Frölicher, C Wirths… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Solar radiation modification (SRM) is increasingly discussed as a tool to reduce or avert
global warming and concomitantly the risk of ice-sheet collapse, as is considered possible …

Increased warm water intrusions could cause mass loss in East Antarctica during the next 200 years

JR Jordan, BWJ Miles, GH Gudmundsson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is currently surrounded by relatively cool water,
but climatic shifts have the potential to increase basal melting via intrusions of warm …

An assessment of basal melt parameterisations for Antarctic ice shelves

C Burgard, NC Jourdain, R Reese… - The Cryosphere …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Ocean-induced ice-shelf melt is the highest uncertainty factor in the Antarctic contribution to
future sea level. Several parameterisations exist to link oceanic properties to basal melt and …

Calibrated mass loss predictions for the Greenland Ice Sheet

A Aschwanden, DJ Brinkerhoff - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The potential contribution of ice sheets remains the largest source of uncertainty in
predicting sea‐level due to the limited predictive skill of numerical ice sheet models, yet …

Sea level rise in Europe: Observations and projections

A Melet, R van de Wal, A Amores, A Arns… - State of the Planet …, 2023 - sp.copernicus.org
Sea level rise (SLR) is a major concern for Europe, where 30 million people live in the
historical 1-in-100-year event flood coastal plains. The latest IPCC assessment reports …

[HTML][HTML] The predictive power of ice sheet models and the regional sensitivity of ice loss to basal sliding parameterisations: a case study of Pine Island and Thwaites …

JM Barnes, GH Gudmundsson - The Cryosphere, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice sheet models use a wide range of sliding laws to define a relationship between ice
velocity and basal drag, generally comprising some combination of a Weertman-style power …

Illustrative multi‐centennial projections of global mean sea‐level rise and their application

FE Turner, V Malagon Santos, TL Edwards… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We produce projections of global mean sea‐level rise to 2500 for low and medium
emissions scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways SSP1‐2.6 and SSP2‐4.5) relative to …

Observations of the Antarctic slope current in the southeastern Weddell Sea: A bottom‐enhanced current and its seasonal variability

E Darelius, I Fer, M Janout, K Daae… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Slope Front and the associated Antarctic Slope Current dynamically
regulate the exchanges of heat across the continental shelf break around Antarctica. Where …