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Evidence for a meltwater feedback driving enhanced ice loss from the rifted Thwaites Glacier Tongue revealed by helicopter-deployed ocean sensors
EVOLUTION OF GLACIERS IN POLAR REGIONS: NEW OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS FROM GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS II ORAL
cryosphere | 13 december 2024
Jamin S. Greenbaum, Matthew R. Mazloff, Tyler Pell...
Intrusions of warm ocean water are known to drive melting beneath ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. However, num...
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Dynamics of the Greenland Coastal Current: the Effect of Winds, Freshwater Buoyancy, and Seafloor Bathymetry
COASTAL OCEAN AND SHELF SEA DYNAMICS I POSTER
ocean sciences | 12 december 2024
Ken Zhao, Fiammetta Straneo, James Holte, Paul G. ...
The ~20 km-wide Greenland coastal current, a component of the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean, plays a significant role in the transport and transformat...
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Observations of Near-Plume Internal Tide in a Greenlandic Glacial Fjord
PROCESSES AND ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS AT DYNAMIC ICE STREAM, ICE SHELF, AND MARINE-TERMINATING GLACIER MARGINS II ORAL
cryosphere | 12 december 2024
Robert Sanchez, Fiammetta Straneo, Ken Zhao, Jenni...
Mixing within glacial fjords plays an important role in redistributing heat, freshwater, and nutrients. The strength of mixing impacts glacial melt ra...
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The Seasonality of Iceberg Melt and its Influences on Fjord Properties and Dynamics
THE BIRTH, LIFE, AND DEATH OF ICEBERGS: SENTINELS OF CHANGE POSTER
cryosphere | 10 december 2024
Kylie Kinne, Fiammetta Straneo, Lia Siegelman, Rob...
Icebergs influence both the distribution of properties in Greenlands fjords and exchange with the open ocean, with consequences for fjord ecosystems. ...
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Towards a Multidisciplinary Greenland Fjord Atlas: From “Sparse Data” Problem to “Big Data” Opportunity
BREAKING THE ICE: ADVANCING FAIR AND CARE DATA PRINCIPLES IN POLAR RESEARCH ELIGHTNING
cryosphere | 09 december 2024
Aurora Roth, Fiammetta Straneo, James Holte, Matth...
Long-term and concurrent observations of ocean, glacier, atmosphere, and ecosystem variables at Greenlands coastal margins are essential for improving...
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Broadband echosounder derived measurements of 3D geometry of a subglacial discharge plume in Hornsund Fjord
PROCESSES AND ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS AT DYNAMIC ICE STREAM, ICE SHELF, AND MARINE-TERMINATING GLACIER MARGINS I POSTER
cryosphere | 09 december 2024
Elizabeth Weidner, Grant B. Deane, Fiammetta Stran...
At the ice-ocean interface of tidewater glaciers mixing between freshwater discharge and fjord waters is enhanced by buoyant subglacial discharge plum...
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Recent Freshening of the Subpolar North Atlantic Increased the Transport of Lighter Waters of the Irminger Current From 2014 to 2022
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
14 november 2024
Nora Fried, Tiago Carrilho Bilo, William Johns, Ca...

Starting in 2012, the eastern subpolar North Atlantic experienced the strongest surface freshening in the past 120 years. It is yet unknown wh...

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Relative Roles of Plume and Coastal Forcing on Exchange Flow Variability of a Glacial Fjord
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
05 june 2024
Robert Sanchez, Fiammetta Straneo, Kenneth Hughes,...

Glacial fjord circulation determines the import of oceanic heat to the Greenland Ice Sheet and the export of ice sheet meltwater to the ocean. Howe...

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