A paper featuring members from OCEAN ICE including Jing Jin, Tony Payne, was published recently. Please find a short summary of the paper below:
The Amery Ice Shelf cavity is one of the largest cold cavities filled by relatively cold Dense Shelf Water. However, in this study, we show that warm intrusion of modified Circumpolar Deep Water flushes the Amery cavity, which changes it from a cold cavity to a warm cavity and leads to an abrupt increase in the basal melt rate in the 2060s. The shift to a warm cavity is attributed to a freshening-driven current reversal in front of the ice shelf.
Read the full paper here.
The author of the article - Jing Jin (University of Bristol)