Impact of tide-topography interactions on basal melting of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Mueller, R D ^a,b   Padman, L ^b   Dinniman, M S ^c   Erofeeva, S Y ^a   Fricker, H A ^d   King, M A ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Earth and Space Research   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; MELTING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIDES; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTICA; BASAL MELTING; BEST ESTIMATES; COUPLED CLIMATE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; GROUNDING LINE; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE SHELVES; ICE STREAMS; MELT RATE; MODEL GEOMETRY; OCEAN MIXING; OCEAN MODEL; OFFSHORE FLOWS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SEABED TOPOGRAPHY; THERMOHALINE; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL FORCING; WEDDELL SEA;

ICE;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; BASAL MELTING; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHELF; ICE STREAM; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MIXING; OCEAN TIDE; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CURRENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ANTARCTICA; LARSEN ICE SHELF; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84861321017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007263     Document Type: Article

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