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 …

Subglacial plumes

IJ Hewitt - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Buoyant plumes form when glacial ice melts directly into the ocean or when subglacial
meltwater is discharged to the ocean at depth. They play a key role in regulating heat …

Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles

ME Wengrove, EC Pettit, JD Nash, RH Jackson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Feedbacks between ice melt, glacier flow and ocean circulation can rapidly accelerate ice
loss at tidewater glaciers and alter projections of sea-level rise. At the core of these …

Ice melting in salty water: layering and non-monotonic dependence on the mean salinity

R Yang, CJ Howland, HR Liu, R Verzicco… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The presence of salt in seawater strongly affects the melt rate and the shape evolution of ice,
both of utmost relevance in ice–ocean interactions and thus for the climate. To get a better …

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 …

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 …

Regimes and transitions in the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves

MG Rosevear, B Gayen… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass as a result of increased ocean-driven melting
of its fringing ice shelves. Efforts to represent the effects of basal melting in sea level …

Double‐Diffusive Layer and Meltwater Plume Effects on Ice Face Scalloping in Phase‐Change Simulations

NJ Wilson, CA Vreugdenhil, B Gayen… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic ice shelves are losing mass at increasing rates, yet the ice‐ocean interactions that
cause significant ice loss are not well understood. A new approach of high‐resolution phase …

Laboratory experiments on ice melting: a need for understanding dynamics at the ice-water interface

AL McCutchan, BA Johnson - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ice-ocean interface is a dynamic zone characterized by the transfer of heat, salinity, and
energy. Complex thermodynamics and fluid dynamics drive fascinating physics as ice is …

Boundary layers in turbulent vertical convection at high Prandtl number

CJ Howland, CS Ng, R Verzicco… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Many environmental flows arise due to natural convection at a vertical surface, from flows in
buildings to dissolving ice faces at marine-terminating glaciers. We use three-dimensional …