Oceanographic controls on the variability of ice-shelf basal melting and circulation of glacial meltwater in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

Satoshi Kimura1, Adrian Jenkins2, Heather Regan3, Paul Holland2, Karen Assmann4, Daniel B Whitt5, Melchoir Van Wessem6, Willem Jan van de Berg6, Carleen Reijmer7 and Pierre Dutrieux8, (1)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan, (2)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale, Plouzané, France, (4)University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Utrecht University, Netherlands, (7)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (8)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States