Wind-triggered Antarctic sea ice decline preconditioned by thinning Winter Water

Theo Spira1,2, Marcel du Plessis1, Alexander Haumann2,3, Isabelle Giddy1, Aditya Narayanan4, Alessandro Silvano5 and Sebastiaan Swart1,6, (1)University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (6)University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography, Cape Town, South Africa