On the multiscale oceanic heat transports toward the bases of the Antarctic ice shelves

Z Wang, C Liu, C Cheng, Q Qin, L Yan… - Ocean-Land …, 2023 - spj.science.org
The mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is important to global sea-level change.
The AIS loses mass mainly through basal melting and subsequent calving of the Antarctic …

A dataset of the daily edge of each polynya in the Antarctic

Y Lin, Y Nakayama, K Liang, Y Huang, D Chen… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Polynyas play a critical role in the formation of Antarctic Bottom Water and the enhancement
of polar primary productivity. Accurate and exhaustive identification of Antarctic polynyas is …

Occurrence of an unusual extensive ice-free feature within the pack ice of the central Weddell Sea, Antarctica

B Jena, J Turner, T Reeves-Francois… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
We investigate an unusual extensive ice-free feature (EIF) within the pack ice that developed
in the central Weddell Sea in December 1980 on the edge of the multi-year sea ice off the …

The atmospheric effects of Southern Ocean open-ocean polynyas onto the coastal polynyas from EC-Earth3

J Gunnarsson - 2023 - gupea.ub.gu.se
Polynyas are recurring areas of open water or thin ice within the sea ice pack, which alter
the local oceanatmosphere heat and moisture exchange. They are differentiated as coastal …