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Antarctic Bottom Water; Ice-Shelf; Ocean Circulation; Era-Interim; Variability; Surface; Model; Trends; Impacts; Oceanography
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Effects Of Projected Changes In Wind, Atmospheric Temperature, And Freshwater Inflow On The Ross Sea, Ms Dinniman, Jm Klinck, Ee Hofmann, Walker O. Smith Jr.
Effects Of Projected Changes In Wind, Atmospheric Temperature, And Freshwater Inflow On The Ross Sea, Ms Dinniman, Jm Klinck, Ee Hofmann, Walker O. Smith Jr.
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A 5-km horizontal resolution regional ocean-sea ice-ice shelf model of the Ross Sea is used to examine the effects of changes in wind strength, air temperature, and increased meltwater input on the formation of high-salinity shelf water (HSSW), on-shelf transport and vertical mixing of Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) and its transformation into modified CDW (MCDW), and basal melt of the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS). A 20% increase in wind speed, with no other atmospheric changes, reduced summer sea ice minimum area by 20%, opposite the observed trend of the past three decades. Increased winds with spatially uniform, reduced atmospheric temperatures …