Icebergs melting

C Cenedese, F Straneo - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Iceberg calving accounts for half of the mass discharge from the Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets, which has increased dramatically over the last two decades. Through their …

An overview of interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets and the Earth system

J Fyke, O Sergienko, M Löfverström… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ice sheet response to forced changes—such as that from anthropogenic climate forcing—is
closely regulated by two‐way interactions with other components of the Earth system. These …

Iron from melting glaciers fuels the phytoplankton blooms in Amundsen Sea (Southern Ocean): Iron biogeochemistry

LJA Gerringa, AC Alderkamp, P Laan… - Deep Sea Research …, 2012 - Elsevier
Dissolved iron (DFe) and total dissolvable Fe (TDFe) were measured in January–February
2009 in Pine Island Bay, as well as in the Pine Island and Amundsen polynyas (Amundsen …

Iceberg melting substantially modifies oceanic heat flux towards a major Greenlandic tidewater glacier

BJ Davison, TR Cowton, FR Cottier, AJ Sole - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Fjord dynamics influence oceanic heat flux to the Greenland ice sheet. Submarine iceberg
melting releases large volumes of freshwater within Greenland's fjords, yet its impact on fjord …

A synthesis of thermodynamic ablation at ice–ocean interfaces from theory, observations and models

A Malyarenko, AJ Wells, PJ Langhorne, NJ Robinson… - Ocean Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermodynamic ablation of ice in contact with the ocean is an essential element of ice sheet
and ocean interactions but is challenging to model and quantify. Building on earlier …

Tracking large tabular icebergs using the SeaWinds Ku-band microwave scatterometer

KM Stuart, DG Long - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Knowledge of iceberg locations is important for safety reasons as well as for understanding
many geophysical and biological processes. Originally designed to measure wind speed …

The effects of Antarctic iceberg calving‐size distribution in a global climate model

AA Stern, A Adcroft, O Sergienko - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Icebergs calved from the Antarctic continent act as moving sources of freshwater while
drifting in the Southern Ocean. The lifespan of these icebergs strongly depends on their …

ASPIRE: the Amundsen Sea Polynya international research expedition

PL Yager, RM Sherrell, SE Stammerjohn… - Oceanography, 2012 - JSTOR
In search of an explanation for some of the greenest waters ever seen in coastal Antarctica
and their possible link to some of the fastest melting glaciers and declining summer sea ice …

Free-drifting icebergs as sources of iron to the Weddell Sea

H Lin, S Rauschenberg, CR Hexel, TJ Shaw… - Deep Sea Research …, 2011 - Elsevier
In recent years glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have retreated, resulting in loss of mass
from ice shelves and increased supply of icebergs to the Southern Ocean. Free-drifting …

NEMO–ICB (v1. 0): interactive icebergs in the NEMO ocean model globally configured at eddy-permitting resolution

R Marsh, VO Ivchenko, N Skliris… - Geoscientific Model …, 2015 - gmd.copernicus.org
An established iceberg module, ICB, is used interactively with the Nucleus for European
Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO) ocean model in a new implementation, NEMO–ICB (v1. 0) …