The Effect of the Amundsen Sea Freshwater Balance on Ocean Melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

David Bett1,2, Paul Holland1, Alberto Naveira Garabato2, Adrian Jenkins1, Pierre Dutrieux3 and Satoshi Kimura4, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan