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Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies 平流层-对流层耦合对近期破纪录的南极海冰异常现象的影响
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4995-2023
Raul R. Cordero, Sarah Feron, A. Damiani, P. Llanillo, Jorge Carrasco, Alia L. Khan, R. Bintanja, Zutao Ouyang, G. Casassa
{"title":"Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies","authors":"Raul R. Cordero, Sarah Feron, A. Damiani, P. Llanillo, Jorge Carrasco, Alia L. Khan, R. Bintanja, Zutao Ouyang, G. Casassa","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4995-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4995-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. In February 2023, the sea-ice extent around Antarctica dropped to 1.79×106 km2, setting a satellite-era record low for the second straight year. Recent records stress the need for further research into the factors behind record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies. By influencing the circumpolar westerly winds, the stratospheric polar vortex has played a major role in the Antarctic surface climate in recent decades. However, the footprint of the polar vortex variability in the year-to-year changes in the Antarctic sea-ice cover remains obscured. Here, we use satellite retrievals and reanalysis data to study the response of the sea-ice extent around Antarctica to changes in the polar vortex strength. We focus on the last 2 decades that saw sharp changes in the stratospheric zonal flow, the tropospheric westerly winds and the sea-ice cover (the latter climbed to record highs in 2013 and 2014 before dropping to record lows in 2017, 2022 and 2023). Our results suggest that this unprecedented interannual variability is noticeably influenced by the polar vortex dynamics. The signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling is apparent in recent records (highs and lows) in the sea-ice extent around Antarctica.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139233466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Array processing in cryoseismology: a comparison to network-based approaches at an Antarctic ice stream 低温地震学中的阵列处理:与南极冰流中基于网络的方法的比较
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4979-2023
T. Hudson, A. Brisbourne, S. Kufner, J. Kendall, A. M. Smith
{"title":"Array processing in cryoseismology: a comparison to network-based approaches at an Antarctic ice stream","authors":"T. Hudson, A. Brisbourne, S. Kufner, J. Kendall, A. M. Smith","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4979-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4979-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Seismicity at glaciers, ice sheets, and ice shelves provides observational constraint on a number of glaciological processes. Detecting and locating this seismicity, specifically icequakes, is a necessary first step in studying processes such as basal slip, crevassing, imaging ice fabric, and iceberg calving, for example. Most glacier deployments to date use conventional seismic networks, comprised of seismometers distributed over the entire area of interest. However, smaller-aperture seismic arrays can also be used, which are typically sensitive to seismicity distal from the array footprint and require a smaller number of instruments. Here, we investigate the potential of arrays and array-processing methods to detect and locate subsurface microseismicity at glaciers, benchmarking performance against conventional seismic-network-based methods for an example at an Antarctic ice stream. We also provide an array-processing recipe for body-wave cryoseismology applications. Results from an array and a network deployed at Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica, show that arrays and networks both have strengths and weaknesses. Arrays can detect icequakes from further distances, whereas networks outperform arrays in more comprehensive studies of a particular process due to greater hypocentral constraint within the network extent. We also gain new insights into seismic behaviour at the Rutford Ice Stream. The array detects basal icequakes in what was previously interpreted to be an aseismic region of the bed, as well as new icequake observations downstream and at the ice stream shear margins, where it would be challenging to deploy instruments. Finally, we make some practical recommendations for future array deployments at glaciers.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139228192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Antarctic permafrost processes and antiphase dynamics of cold-based glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys inferred from 10Be and 26Al cosmogenic nuclides 从 10Be 和 26Al 宇宙成因核素推断南极永久冻土过程和麦克默多干谷冷基冰川的反相动力学
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4917-2023
Jacob T. H. Anderson, T. Fujioka, David Fink, A. Hidy, Gary S. Wilson, K. Wilcken, Andrey Abramov, Nikita Demidov
{"title":"Antarctic permafrost processes and antiphase dynamics of cold-based glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys inferred from 10Be and 26Al cosmogenic nuclides","authors":"Jacob T. H. Anderson, T. Fujioka, David Fink, A. Hidy, Gary S. Wilson, K. Wilcken, Andrey Abramov, Nikita Demidov","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4917-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4917-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Soil and sediment mixing and associated permafrost processes are not widely studied or understood in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. In this study, we investigate the stability and depositional history of near-surface permafrost sediments to ∼ 3 m depth in the Pearse and lower Wright valleys using measured cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al depth profiles. In Pearse Valley, we estimate a minimum depositional age of ∼ 74 ka for the active layer and paleoactive-layer sediments (< 0.65 m). Combined depth profile modelling of 10Be and 26Al gives a depositional age for near-surface (< 1.65 m) permafrost in Pearse Valley of 180 +20/-40 ka, implying that the deposition of permafrost sediments predates MIS 5 advances of Taylor Glacier. Deeper permafrost sediments (> 2.09 m) in Pearse Valley are thus inferred to have a depositional age of > 180 ka. At a coastal, lower-elevation site in neighbouring lower Wright Valley, 10Be and 26Al depth profiles from a second permafrost core exhibit near-constant concentrations with depth and indicate the sediments are either vertically mixed after deposition or sufficiently young so that post-depositional nuclide production is negligible relative to inheritance. 26Al/10Be concentration ratios for both depth profiles range between 4.0 and 5.2 and are all lower than the nominal surface production rate ratio of 6.75, indicating that prior to deposition, these sediments experienced complex, yet similar, exposure–burial histories. Assuming a single-cycle exposure–burial scenario, the observed 26Al/10Be ratios are equivalent to a total minimum exposure–burial history of ∼ 1.2 Myr. In proximity to the depth profile core site, we measured cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al in three granite cobbles from thin, patchy drift (Taylor 2 Drift) in Pearse Valley to constrain the timing of retreat of Taylor Glacier. Assuming simple continuous exposure, our minimum, zero-erosion exposure ages suggest Taylor Glacier partially retreated from Pearse Valley no later than 65–74 ka. The timing of retreat after 65 ka and until the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) when Taylor Glacier was at a minimum position remains unresolved. The surface cobble ages and permafrost processes reveal Taylor Glacier advances during MIS 5 were non-erosive or mildly erosive, preserving the underlying permafrost sediments and peppering boulders and cobbles upon an older, relict surface. Our results are consistent with U/Th ages from central Taylor Valley and suggest changes in moisture delivery over Taylor Dome during MIS 5e, 5c, and 5a appear to be associated with the extent of the Ross Ice Shelf and sea ice in the Ross Sea. These data provide further evidence of antiphase behaviour through retreat of a peripheral lobe of Taylor Glacier in Pearse Valley, a region that was glaciated during MIS 5. We suggest a causal relationship of cold-based glacier advance and retreat that is controlled by an increase in moisture availability during retreat of sea ice and perhaps the Ross","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"80 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning 利用深度学习的开箱即用型卡棱检测方法
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4957-2023
Oskar Herrmann, Nora Gourmelon, T. Seehaus, A. Maier, J. Fürst, Matthias H. Braun, V. Christlein
{"title":"Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning","authors":"Oskar Herrmann, Nora Gourmelon, T. Seehaus, A. Maier, J. Fürst, Matthias H. Braun, V. Christlein","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4957-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4957-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Glaciers across the globe react to the changing climate. Monitoring the transformation of glaciers is essential for projecting their contribution to global mean sea level rise. The delineation of glacier-calving fronts is an important part of the satellite-based monitoring process. This work presents a calving-front extraction method based on the deep learning framework nnU-Net, which stands for no new U-Net. The framework automates the training of a popular neural network, called U-Net, designed for segmentation tasks. Our presented method marks the calving front in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of glaciers. The images are taken by six different sensor systems. A benchmark dataset for calving-front extraction is used for training and evaluation. The dataset contains two labels for each image. One label denotes a classic image segmentation into different zones (glacier, ocean, rock, and no information available). The other label marks the edge between the glacier and the ocean, i.e., the calving front. In this work, the nnU-Net is modified to predict both labels simultaneously. In the field of machine learning, the prediction of multiple labels is referred to as multi-task learning (MTL). The resulting predictions of both labels benefit from simultaneous optimization. For further testing of the capabilities of MTL, two different network architectures are compared, and an additional task, the segmentation of the glacier outline, is added to the training. In the end, we show that fusing the label of the calving front and the zone label is the most efficient way to optimize both tasks with no significant accuracy reduction compared to the MTL neural-network architectures. The automatic detection of the calving front with an nnU-Net trained on fused labels improves from the baseline mean distance error (MDE) of 753±76 to 541±84 m. The scripts for our experiments are published on GitHub (https://github.com/ho11laqe/nnUNet_calvingfront_detection, last access: 20 November 2023). An easy-access version is published on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/spaces/ho11laqe/nnUNet_calvingfront_detection, last access: 20 November 2023).","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139238598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Combined GNSS reflectometry–refractometry for automated and continuous in situ surface mass balance estimation on an Antarctic ice shelf 将全球导航卫星系统反射测量法和折射测量法结合起来,对南极冰架进行自动、连续的原地表面质量平衡估算
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4903-2023
L. Steiner, H. Schmithüsen, J. Wickert, O. Eisen
{"title":"Combined GNSS reflectometry–refractometry for automated and continuous in situ surface mass balance estimation on an Antarctic ice shelf","authors":"L. Steiner, H. Schmithüsen, J. Wickert, O. Eisen","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4903-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4903-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Reliable in situ surface mass balance (SMB) estimates in polar regions are scarce due to limited spatial and temporal data availability. This study aims at deriving automated and continuous specific SMB time series for fast-moving parts of ice sheets and shelves (flow velocity > 10 m a−1) by developing a combined global navigation satellite system (GNSS) reflectometry and refractometry (GNSS-RR) method. In situ snow density, snow water equivalent (SWE), and snow deposition or erosion are estimated simultaneously as an average over an area of several square meters and independently on weather conditions. The combined GNSS-RR method is validated and investigated regarding its applicability to a moving, high-latitude ice shelf. A combined GNSS-RR system was therefore installed in November 2021 on the Ekström ice shelf (flow velocity ≈ 150 m a−1) in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. The reflected and refracted GNSS observations from the site are post-processed to obtain snow accumulation (deposition and erosion), SWE, and snow density estimates with a 15 min temporal resolution. The results of the first 16 months of data show a high level of agreement with manual and automated reference observations from the same site. Snow accumulation, SWE, and density are derived with uncertainties of around 9 cm, 40 kg m−2 a−1, and 72 kg m−3, respectively. This pilot study forms the basis for extending observational networks with GNSS-RR capabilities, particularly in polar regions. Regional climate models, local snow modeling, and extensive remote sensing data products will profit from calibration and validation based on such in situ time series, especially if many such sensors will be deployed over larger regional scales.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"131 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139247430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Evaluation of four calving laws for Antarctic ice shelves 评估南极冰架的四种沉积规律
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4889-2023
J. Wilner, M. Morlighem, Gong Cheng
{"title":"Evaluation of four calving laws for Antarctic ice shelves","authors":"J. Wilner, M. Morlighem, Gong Cheng","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4889-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4889-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Many floating ice shelves in Antarctica buttress the ice streams feeding them, thereby reducing the discharge of icebergs into the ocean. The rate at which ice shelves calve icebergs and how fast they flow determine whether they advance, retreat, or remain stable, exerting a first-order control on ice discharge. To parameterize calving within ice sheet models, several empirical and physical calving “laws” have been proposed in the past few decades. Such laws emphasize dissimilar features, including along- and across-flow strain rates (the eigencalving law), a fracture yield criterion (the von Mises law), longitudinal stretching (the crevasse depth law), and a simple ice thickness threshold (the minimum thickness law), among others. Despite the multitude of established calving laws, these laws remain largely unvalidated for the Antarctic Ice Sheet, rendering it difficult to assess the broad applicability of any given law in Antarctica. We address this shortcoming through a set of numerical experiments that evaluate existing calving laws for 10 ice shelves around the Antarctic Ice Sheet. We utilize the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM) and implement four calving laws under constant external forcing, calibrating the free parameter of each of these calving laws for each ice shelf by assuming that the current position of the ice front is in steady state and finding the set of parameters that best achieves this position over a simulation of 200 years. We find that, in general, the eigencalving and von Mises laws best reproduce observed calving front positions under the steady-state position assumption. These results will streamline future modeling efforts of Antarctic ice shelves by better informing the relevant physics of Antarctic-style calving on a shelf-by-shelf basis.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139253996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Englacial architecture of Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica 南极洲东部兰伯特冰川的冰川结构
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4853-2023
Rebecca J. Sanderson, K. Winter, S. L. Callard, F. Napoleoni, N. Ross, T. Jordan, R. Bingham
{"title":"Englacial architecture of Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica","authors":"Rebecca J. Sanderson, K. Winter, S. L. Callard, F. Napoleoni, N. Ross, T. Jordan, R. Bingham","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4853-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4853-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The analysis of englacial layers using radio-echo sounding data enables the characterisation and reconstruction of current and past ice-sheet flow. Despite the Lambert Glacier catchment being one of the largest in Antarctica, discharging ∼16 % of East Antarctica's ice, its englacial architecture has been little analysed. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of Lambert Glacier's englacial architecture using radio-echo sounding data collected by Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province Project (AGAP) North survey. We used an internal layering continuity index (ILCI) to characterise the internal architecture of the ice and identify four macro-scale ILCI zones with distinct glaciological contexts. Whilst the catchment is dominated by continuous englacial layering, disrupted or discontinuous layering is highlighted by the ILCI at both the onset of enhanced ice flow (defined here as >15 m a−1) and along the shear margin, suggesting a transition in englacial deformation conditions and converging ice flow. These zones are characterised by buckled and folded englacial layers which have fold axes aligned with the current ice-flow regime. These folds suggest that the flow direction of the Lambert Glacier trunk has changed little, if at all, during the Holocene. Disturbed englacial layers that do not correspond to modern ice-flow routing found within a deep subglacial channel, however, suggest that ice-flow change has occurred in a former tributary that fed Lambert Glacier from grid north. As large outlet systems such as Lambert Glacier are likely to play a vital role in the future drainage of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, constraining their englacial architecture to reconstruct their past ice flow and determine basal conditions is important for refining projections of future sea-level change.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"20 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139255393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Observations of preferential summer melt of Arctic sea-ice ridge keels from repeated multibeam sonar surveys 通过多波束声纳重复测量观测北极海冰脊龙骨夏季优先融化情况
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4873-2023
E. Salganik, Benjamin A. Lange, C. Katlein, I. Matero, P. Anhaus, Morven Muilwijk, K. Høyland, M. Granskog
{"title":"Observations of preferential summer melt of Arctic sea-ice ridge keels from repeated multibeam sonar surveys","authors":"E. Salganik, Benjamin A. Lange, C. Katlein, I. Matero, P. Anhaus, Morven Muilwijk, K. Høyland, M. Granskog","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4873-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4873-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Sea-ice ridges constitute a large fraction of the total Arctic sea-ice area (up to 40 %–50 %); nevertheless, they are the least studied part of the ice pack. Here we investigate sea-ice melt rates using rare, repeated underwater multibeam sonar surveys that cover a period of 1 month during the advanced stage of sea-ice melt. Bottom melt increases with ice draft for first- and second-year level ice and a first-year ice ridge, with an average of 0.46, 0.55, and 0.95 m of total snow and ice melt in the observation period, respectively. On average, the studied ridge had a 4.6 m keel bottom draft, was 42 m wide, and had 4 % macroporosity. While bottom melt rates of ridge keel were 3.8 times higher than first-year level ice, surface melt rates were almost identical but responsible for 40 % of ridge draft decrease. Average cross-sectional keel melt ranged from 0.2 to 2.6 m, with a maximum point ice loss of 6 m, showcasing its large spatial variability. We attribute 57 % of the ridge total (surface and bottom) melt variability to keel draft (36 %), slope (32 %), and width (27 %), with higher melt for ridges with a larger draft, a steeper slope, and a smaller width. The melt rate of the ridge keel flanks was proportional to the draft, with increased keel melt within 10 m of its bottom corners and the melt rates between these corners comparable to the melt rates of level ice.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"7 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139257972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Millennial and orbital-scale variability in a 54 000-year record of total air content from the South Pole ice core 南极冰芯 54 000 年总空气含量记录中的千年和轨道尺度变化
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4837-2023
Jenna A. Epifanio, E. Brook, C. Buizert, E. Pettit, J. Edwards, J. Fegyveresi, T. Sowers, J. Severinghaus, Emma C. Kahle
{"title":"Millennial and orbital-scale variability in a 54 000-year record of total air content from the South Pole ice core","authors":"Jenna A. Epifanio, E. Brook, C. Buizert, E. Pettit, J. Edwards, J. Fegyveresi, T. Sowers, J. Severinghaus, Emma C. Kahle","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4837-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4837-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The total air content (TAC) of polar ice cores has long been considered a potential proxy for past ice sheet elevation. Recent work, however, has shown that a variety of other factors also influence this parameter. In this paper we present a high-resolution TAC record from the South Pole ice core (SPC14) covering the last 54 000 years and discuss the implications of the data for interpreting TAC from ice cores. The SPC14 TAC record shows multiple features of interest, including (1) long-term orbital-scale variability, (2) millennial-scale variability in the Holocene and last glacial period, and (3) a period of stability from 35 to 25 ka. The longer, orbital-scale variations in TAC are highly correlated with integrated summer insolation (ISI), corroborating the potential of TAC to provide an independent dating tool via orbital tuning. Large millennial-scale variability in TAC during the last glacial period is positively correlated with past accumulation rate reconstructions as well as δ15N-N2, a firn thickness proxy. These TAC variations are too large to be controlled by direct effects of temperature and too rapid to be tied to elevation changes. We propose that grain size metamorphism near the firn surface explains these changes. We note, however, that at sites with different climate histories than the South Pole, TAC variations may be dominated by other processes. Our observations of millennial-scale variations in TAC show a different relationship with accumulation rate than observed at sites in Greenland.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"25 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139276022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The evolution of isolated cavities and hydraulic connection at the glacier bed – Part 1: Steady states and friction laws 冰川床的孤立洞穴和水力联系的演变 - 第 1 部分:稳态和摩擦定律
The Cryosphere Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4797-2023
C. Schoof
{"title":"The evolution of isolated cavities and hydraulic connection at the glacier bed – Part 1: Steady states and friction laws","authors":"C. Schoof","doi":"10.5194/tc-17-4797-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4797-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Models of subglacial drainage and of cavity formation generally assume that the glacier bed is pervasively hydraulically connected. A growing body of field observations indicates that this assumption is frequently violated in practice. In this paper, I use an extension of existing models of steady-state cavitation to study the formation of hydraulically isolated, uncavitated, low-pressure regions of the bed, which would become flooded if they had access to the subglacial drainage system. I also study their natural counterpart, hydraulically isolated cavities that would drain if they had access to the subglacial drainage system. I show that connections to the drainage system are made at two different sets of critical effective pressure, a lower one at which uncavitated low-pressure regions connect to the drainage system and a higher one at which isolated cavities do the same. I also show that the extent of cavitation, determined by the history of connections made at the bed, has a dominant effect on basal drag while remaining outside the realm of previously employed basal friction laws: changes in basal effective pressure alone may have a minor effect on basal drag until a connection between a cavity and an uncavitated low-pressure region of the bed is made, at which point a drastic and irreversible drop in drag occurs. These results point to the need to expand basal friction and drainage models to include a description of basal connectivity.","PeriodicalId":509217,"journal":{"name":"The Cryosphere","volume":"7 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139270808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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