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Numerical experiments examining the response of onshore oceanic heat supply to yearly changes in the Amundsen Sea icescape (Antarctica)
Satellite images from Antarctica reveal important changes in the coastal icescape (fast-ice, icebergs and ice shelves) but these yearly changes and their impacts on the coastal circulation and ice shelf basal melt rates are not represented in the Earth System Models used to project future sea level rise. The impacts of these yearly icescape changes are thus investigated using a high-resolution regional ocean-ice shelves-sea ice coupled model of the Amundsen Sea (Antarctica). A set of nine semi-idealized experiments were designed to highlight the impacts of (a) the collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue, (b) the disappearance of the Bear Ridge Iceberg Chain and tabular iceberg B22, and (c) presence/absence of a fast-ice cover between Thwaites and Pine Island ice shelves, in both cold and warm background hydrological conditions. The dataset features the results of the nine experiments and reveals changes in sea ice concentrations, coastal oceanic circulation and oceanic heat supply to the ice shelf cavities, ice shelf basal melt rates, hydrological conditions, and fluxes of heat/freshwater at the sea surface. These model results are archived in self-documented NetCDF files with the appropriate metadata for each variable. The dataset includes a 'readme file' providing an overview of the archive as well as additional information regarding the model results.
Disciplines
Physical oceanography, Cryosphere
Keywords
Antarctica, Amundsen Sea, Ice shelves, Oceanography, Cryosphere, Modeling, ROMS
Location
-68N, -76S, -90E, -140W
Devices
The dataset does not include observational data but the associated research article includes a thorough description of the numerical model configuration used to generate the dataset.
Data
File | Size | Format | Processing | Access | |
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fig02_exp2011_cold_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2011_cold_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 92 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2011fastI_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2011fastI_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 94 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2011_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2011_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 94 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022_cold_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022_cold_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 92 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 94 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022noBerg_cold_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022noBerg_cold_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 92 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022noberg_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022noberg_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 94 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022noFastI_cold_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022noFastI_cold_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 93 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022nofasti_grid_model.nc (model grid for this experiment) | 33 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
fig02_exp2022nofasti_initial_condition_model.nc (initial condition for this experiment) | 94 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
heat_flux_at_surface_ocean.nc (model results) | 129 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
horizontal_oceanic_heat_flux.nc (model results) | 11 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
hydrography_basalmelt_circulation.nc (model results) | 1 Go | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
readme.txt (overall description of the dataset) | 3 Ko | TEXT | Processed data | ||
sea_ice_concentration.nc (model results) | 115 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data | ||
sea_ice_growth.nc (model results) | 136 Mo | NetCDF | Processed data |