Risks of rapid ocean warming at the Antarctic continental margin

该项目旨在全面了解海洋热量向南极洲循环的相互关联的过程。南极边缘海洋迅速变暖的风险是深远的，通过深海变暖、陆地冰融化和冰架崩塌已经发现了变化。然而，由于恶劣的环境和缺乏标准的数据流，人们对这一地区的了解仍然很少，只有有限的观测。该项目将使用高分辨率的全球和区域海洋/海冰模型，通过大尺度驱动因素和精细尺度过程（包括中尺度涡流、潮汐-地形相互作用和底边界流动）来研究南极大陆架水域快速变暖的机制。这项工作将通过提供与暖水侵入南极大陆架有关的海洋过程、动力学和反馈的重要知识，更好地限制南极洲周围冰融化的未来速度。

This project aims to comprehensively understand the interconnected processes by which oceanic heat is circulated towards Antarctica. The risk of rapid ocean warming at the Antarctic margin is profound, with change already detected via deep ocean warming, land-ice melt, and ice shelf collapse. Yet this region remains poorly understood, with only limited observations due to both a harsh environment and a lack of standard data streams. This project will use high-resolution global and regional ocean/sea-ice models to examine mechanisms for rapid warming of Antarctic continental shelf waters via both large-scale drivers and fine-scale processes, including mesoscale eddies, tide-topography interactions, and bottom boundary flows. This work will better constrain future rates of ice melt around Antarctica by providing vital knowledge of the ocean processes, dynamics, and feedbacks relating to warm water intrusion onto the Antarctic continental shelf.