～Mechanism of Global Warming Accelerating Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting～
Joint Press Release by Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, National Institute of Polar Research (NiPR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and Hokkaido University.
A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (President: Toshio Iseki, hereafter "TUMSAT"); the National Institute of Polar Research; the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology; and the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, has found that enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ice sheet in the East Antarctic coastal area.
The results of this research were published online in Geophysical Research Letters on March 15, 2025 at 5:14 p.m. (JST).
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