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Future Freshwater Fluxes From the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Coulon, Violaine; De Rydt, Jan; Gregov, Thomas et al.
2024In Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (23)
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Keywords :
Antarctic ice sheet; freshwater flux; southern ocean; modeling
Abstract :
[en] Surface freshening of the Southern Ocean driven by meltwater discharge from the Antarctic ice sheet has been shown to influence global climate dynamics. However, most climate models fail to account for spatially and temporally varying freshwater inputs from ice sheets, introducing significant uncertainty into climate projections. We present the first historically calibrated projections of Antarctic freshwater fluxes (subshelf melting, calving, and surface meltwater runoff) to 2300 that can be used to force climate models lacking interactive ice sheets. Our findings indicate substantial changes in the magnitude and partitioning of Antarctic freshwater discharge over the coming decades and centuries, particularly under very-high warming scenarios, driven by the progressive collapse of the West Antarctic ice shelves. We project a shift in the form and location of Antarctic freshwater sources, as liquid sub-shelf melting increases under the two climate scenarios considered, and surface meltwater runoff could potentially become a dominant contributor under extreme atmospheric warming.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Coulon, Violaine;  Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
De Rydt, Jan;  Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Gregov, Thomas ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Computational and stochastic modeling
Qin, Qing;  Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Pattyn, Frank;  Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
Language :
English
Title :
Future Freshwater Fluxes From the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Publication date :
08 December 2024
Journal title :
Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN :
0094-8276
eISSN :
1944-8007
Publisher :
Wiley, Washington, United States - District of Columbia
Volume :
51
Issue :
23
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Tags :
CÉCI : Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif
European Projects :
HE - 101060452 - OCEAN ICE - Ocean Cryosphere Exchanges in ANtarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth system
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
EU - European Union
Funding text :
This research was supported by OCEAN:ICE, which is co‐funded by the European Union, Horizon Europe Funding Programme for research and innovation under grant agreement Nr. 101060452 and by UK Research and Innovation. OCEAN:ICE Contribution number 11. Computational resources have been provided by the Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif (CÉCI), funded by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique (F.R.S.‐FNRS) under Grant Number 2.5020.11 and by the Walloon Region. TG was supported by the F.R.S.‐FNRS through a Research Fellowship. JDR was also supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship under Grant number MR/W011816/1.
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