Modeling Antarctic ice shelf responses to future climate changes and impacts on the ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2454-2475

  Kusahara, Kazuya ^a,b   Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctic ice shelves; basal melt; climate change; ice shelf sea ice ocean model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES; ICE-OCEAN COUPLED MODEL; ICE-OCEAN MODELS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA ICE PRODUCTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WATER TEMPERATURES;

MELTING;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; BASAL MELTING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT SOURCE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84880726869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20166     Document Type: Article

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