Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice
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层状海水侵入并在接地冰下融化
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2021
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通讯作者:
H. Seroussi
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作者:
A. Robel;E. Wilson;H. Seroussi
Abstract. Increasing melt of ice sheets at their floating or vertical interface with the ocean is a major driver of marine ice sheet retreat and sea level rise. However, the extent to which warm, salty seawater may drive melting under the grounded portions of ice sheets is still not well understood. Previous work has explored the possibility that dense seawater intrudes beneath relatively light subglacial freshwater discharge, similar to the salt wedge observed in many estuarine systems. In this study, we develop a generalized theory of layered seawater intrusion under grounded ice, including where subglacial hydrology occurs as a macroporous water sheet over impermeable beds or as microporous Darcy flow through permeable till. Using predictions from this theory, we show that seawater intrusion over hard beds may feasibly occur up to tens of kilometers upstream of a glacier terminus or grounding line. On the other hand, seawater is unlikely to intrude more than tens of meters through subglacial till. High-resolution simulations using the Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level System Model (ISSM) show that even just a few hundred meters of basal melt caused by seawater intrusion upstream of marine ice sheet grounding lines can cause projections of marine ice sheet volume loss to be 10–50 % higher or 100 % higher for kilometers of intrusion-induced basal melt. These results suggest that further observational, experimental and numerical investigations are needed to determine whether the conditions under which extensive seawater intrusion occurs and whether it will indeed drive rapid marine ice sheet retreat and sea level rise in the future.
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影响因子:
13.6
作者:
Wåhlin AK;Graham AGC;Hogan KA;Queste BY;Boehme L;Larter RD;Pettit EC;Wellner J;Heywood KJ
通讯作者:
Heywood KJ
DOI:
10.5194/tc-2021-66
发表时间:
2021
期刊:
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影响因子:
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作者:
Bevan S
通讯作者:
Bevan S
影响因子:
18.3
作者:
Ross N
通讯作者:
Ross N
DOI:
10.5194/tc-13-1441-2019
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
The Cryosphere
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作者:
Seroussi H
通讯作者:
Seroussi H
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Wilson, Earle A.;Wells, Andrew J.;Hewitt, Ian J.;Cenedese, Claudia
通讯作者:
Cenedese, Claudia