Large semi-stationary eddies whip warm water toward melting East Antarctic ice shelf

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 03, 2021

Warm circumpolar deep waters flowing toward the Antarctic continental shelf were recently identified as causing ice shelf melting on the eastern half of the continent, not just in the west. But the precise mechanism of transport of these warm water flows from further offshore has until now remained unknown. Japanese scientists from the National Institute of Polar Research have now however