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Ice front retreat reconfigures meltwater-driven gyres modulating ocean heat delivery to an Antarctic ice shelf

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-27968-8

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  1. Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries [KIMST20190361, PM21020]
  2. National Science Foundation
  3. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/S006419/1, NE/S006591/1]
  4. NERC [NE/S006591/1, NE/S006419/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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Direct observations from Antarctica's Pine Island Bay region reveal that glacial melt can modify heat transport and ocean processes associated with ice front retreat. The melting of the Pine Island Ice Shelf (PIIS) and its retreat have led to buttressing loss, with the primary factor being the thermocline variability at its front. This study proposes a double-gyre in Pine Island Bay that controls ocean heat input towards PIIS, suggesting the importance of reconfigurations in meltwater-driven gyres associated with moving ice boundaries.
Glacial melt can modify heat transport, and therefore ocean processes, associated with ice front retreat, as revealed by direct observations from the Pine Island Bay region of Antarctica. Pine Island Ice Shelf (PIIS) buttresses the Pine Island Glacier, the key contributor to sea-level rise. PIIS has thinned owing to ocean-driven melting, and its calving front has retreated, leading to buttressing loss. PIIS melting depends primarily on the thermocline variability in its front. Furthermore, local ocean circulation shifts adjust heat transport within Pine Island Bay (PIB), yet oceanic processes underlying the ice front retreat remain unclear. Here, we report a PIB double-gyre that moves with the PIIS calving front and hypothesise that it controls ocean heat input towards PIIS. Glacial melt generates cyclonic and anticyclonic gyres near and off PIIS, and meltwater outflows converge into the anticyclonic gyre with a deep-convex-downward thermocline. The double-gyre migrated eastward as the calving front retreated, placing the anticyclonic gyre over a shallow seafloor ridge, reducing the ocean heat input towards PIIS. Reconfigurations of meltwater-driven gyres associated with moving ice boundaries might be crucial in modulating ocean heat delivery to glacial ice.

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