Totten Glacier Upwelling Video (VIDEO)

University of Texas at Austin

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Wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below. Totten Glacier responds by speeding its flow about a year and a half after strong upwelling anomalies are observed at the continental shelf break.

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Chad Greene, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

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