Ocean stratification reduces melt rates at the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf

Carolyn Branecky Begeman, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Slawek M Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Oliver John Marsh, University of Canterbury, Gateway Antarctica, Christchurch, New Zealand, Jill Mikucki, University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, TN, United States, Timothy P Stanton, Naval Postgraduate School, Oceanography, Monterey, CA, United States, Timothy O Hodson, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL, United States, Matthew R Siegfried, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Ross D Powell, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States, Knut A Christianson, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Matt A King, University of Tasmania, Surveying and Spatial Sciences, School of Technology, Environments and Design, Hobart, TAS, Australia