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| Title |
Response of Pacific-sector Antarctic ice shelves to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation
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| Published in |
Nature Geoscience, January 2018
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| DOI | 10.1038/s41561-017-0033-0 |
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| Authors |
F. S. Paolo, L. Padman, H. A. Fricker, S. Adusumilli, S. Howard, M. R. Siegfried |
| Abstract |
Satellite observations over the past two decades have revealed increasing loss of grounded ice in West Antarctica, associated with floating ice shelves that have been thinning. Thinning reduces an ice-shelf's ability to restrain grounded-ice discharge, yet our understanding of the climate processes that drive mass changes is limited. Here, we use ice-shelf height data from four satellite altimeter missions (1994-2017) to show a direct link between ice-shelf-height variability in the Antarctic Pacific sector and changes in regional atmospheric circulation driven by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. This link is strongest from Dotson to Ross ice shelves and weaker elsewhere. During intense El Niño years, height increase by accumulation exceeds the height decrease by basal melting, but net ice-shelf mass declines as basal ice loss exceeds lower-density snow gain. Our results demonstrate a substantial response of Amundsen Sea ice shelves to global and regional climate variability, with rates of change in height and mass on interannual timescales that can be comparable to the longer-term trend, and with mass changes from surface accumulation offsetting a significant fraction of the changes in basal melting. This implies that ice-shelf height and mass variability will increase as interannual atmospheric variability increases in a warming climate. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 197 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 35 | 18% |
| United States | 15 | 8% |
| Spain | 15 | 8% |
| Mexico | 10 | 5% |
| Argentina | 7 | 4% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | 2% |
| Colombia | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 20 | 10% |
| Unknown | 83 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 169 | 86% |
| Scientists | 25 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 1% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 211 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 211 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 54 | 26% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 45 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 23 | 11% |
| Unknown | 37 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 103 | 49% |
| Environmental Science | 33 | 16% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 6 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 2% |
| Engineering | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 17 | 8% |
| Unknown | 44 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 297. 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 10 April 2023.
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