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| Title |
Rapid submarine ice melting in the grounding zones of ice shelves in West Antarctica
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, October 2016
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms13243 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ala Khazendar, Eric Rignot, Dustin M. Schroeder, Helene Seroussi, Michael P. Schodlok, Bernd Scheuchl, Jeremie Mouginot, Tyler C. Sutterley, Isabella Velicogna |
| Abstract |
Enhanced submarine ice-shelf melting strongly controls ice loss in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica, but its magnitude is not well known in the critical grounding zones of the ASE's major glaciers. Here we directly quantify bottom ice losses along tens of kilometres with airborne radar sounding of the Dotson and Crosson ice shelves, which buttress the rapidly changing Smith, Pope and Kohler glaciers. Melting in the grounding zones is found to be much higher than steady-state levels, removing 300-490 m of solid ice between 2002 and 2009 beneath the retreating Smith Glacier. The vigorous, unbalanced melting supports the hypothesis that a significant increase in ocean heat influx into ASE sub-ice-shelf cavities took place in the mid-2000s. The synchronous but diverse evolutions of these glaciers illustrate how combinations of oceanography and topography modulate rapid submarine melting to hasten mass loss and glacier retreat from West Antarctica. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 80 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 11% |
| Australia | 8 | 10% |
| Spain | 5 | 6% |
| Sweden | 3 | 4% |
| Norway | 2 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Unknown | 32 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 57 | 71% |
| Scientists | 17 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 196 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 186 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 50 | 26% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 47 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 24 | 12% |
| Professor | 15 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 9% |
| Unknown | 31 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 113 | 58% |
| Environmental Science | 23 | 12% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 7 | 4% |
| Engineering | 6 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 5% |
| Unknown | 34 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 731. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2021.
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