HE005
Ice Sheet–Ocean Interactions: From Micro- to Climate-Scale
Ice Sheet–Ocean Interactions: From Micro- to Climate-Scale
Session ID#: 259527
Session Description:
The dynamic interactions between ice sheets and the ocean span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, influencing glacier stability, ocean circulation, sea level, and global climate. Around Antarctica, Greenland, and the Arctic, warm ocean waters reach marine-terminating glaciers and ice shelves, driving melting and retreat. The resulting freshwater input — including glacial and iceberg melt and subglacial discharge — alters stratification and circulation, feeding back on ocean circulation and climate patterns with potentially long-lasting global consequences. This session aims to foster cross-scale and cross-hemisphere dialogue to deepen our understanding of how ice sheet–ocean interactions shape the ocean and Earth system. We welcome contributions that explore interactions at the ice-ocean interface, circulation in ice shelf cavities and fjords, and studies focusing on basin-scale to global impacts, such as freshwater hosing experiments. We encourage studies on small-scale processes of glacial melt; meltwater and warm water pathways and mixing; boundary layer dynamics; iceberg and mélange dynamics; subglacial hydrology; and large-scale modeling and observational efforts assessing freshwater impacts on ocean and climate systems. Submissions using in situ and remote observations, theoretical approaches, numerical modeling, and emerging tools are all welcome.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- High Latitude Environments -
- Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller -
Index Terms:
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair: Madelaine Meredith Gamble Rosevear, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Primary Chair: Ken Zhao, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
Co-chairs: Torge Martin, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Ariaan Purich, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Rebecca H Jackson, Tufts University, Medford, United States
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