{"id":225355,"date":"2025-11-18T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/antarctic-ice-loss-linked-to-storms-at-oceans-subsurface"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:10:49","slug":"antarctic-ice-loss-linked-to-storms-at-oceans-subsurface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/antarctic-ice-loss-linked-to-storms-at-oceans-subsurface","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic ice loss linked to \u2018storms\u2019 at ocean\u2019s subsurface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antarctic-ice-loss-linked-to-storms-at-oceans-subsurface.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath the Antarctic ice shelves that are causing aggressive melting, with major implications for global sea level rise projections.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published recently in <i>Nature Geoscience<\/i>, the scientists say their study is the first to examine ocean-induced ice shelf melting events from a weather timescale of just days versus seasonal or annual timeframes. This enabled them to match \u201cocean storm\u201d activity with intense ice melt at Thwaites Glacier and Pine Island Glacier in the climate change-threatened Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>The research team relied on climate simulation modeling and moored observation tools to gain 200-meter-resolution pictures of submesoscale ocean features between 1 and 10 kilometers across, tiny in the context of the vast ocean and huge slabs of floating ice in Antarctica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath the Antarctic ice shelves that are causing aggressive melting, with major implications for global sea level rise projections. In a paper published recently in Nature Geoscience, the scientists say their study is the first to examine ocean-induced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}