[M-IS10] [EJ] 南大洋・南極氷床が駆動する全球気候変動

[MIS10-09] 白瀬氷河における氷舌ー海洋相互作用の現場観測

★招待講演

*平野 大輔¹、田村 岳史²、牛尾 収輝²、大島 慶一郎¹、清水 大輔²、小野 数也¹、野口 智英³、青木 茂¹ (1.北海道大学低温科学研究所、2.国立極地研究所、3.マリンワークジャパン)

キーワード：白瀬氷河氷舌、底面融解、周極深層水

Shirase Glacier Tongue (SGT) is a thick floating slab of ice that forms where the glacier flows down onto the ocean surface at the southern closed-section of Lutzow-Holm Bay (LHB) off Enderby Land, East Antarctica. Compared with other major ice shelves/tongues around Antarctica, SGT is smaller in area but its basal melt rate was estimated to be relatively high at a rate of ~7 m per year (Rignot et al., 2013) based on presence of warm deep water. Although comprehensive hydrographic observations in LHB is indispensable for understanding the SGT-ocean interaction, they are extremely limited, with exception of those conducted by wintering party of the 31^st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) in 1990/92. Detailed analysis of the JARE-31 winter hydrographic observations suggests a 3-dimenstional circulation, associated with the SGT-ocean interaction, that comprises: (1) warm modified CDW (Circumpolar Deep Water) flows southward at the deep layer of submarine canyon that leads into the region beneath SGT, (2) mCDW meets to melt the base of SGT, and (3) mixture of mCDW and basal melt water exports northward at subsurface layer.
To explore in detail the SGT-ocean interaction, summer comprehensive hydrographic observations in LHB are now in progress during JARE-58 in 2016/17 under the project called ROBOTICA. In this talk, preliminary results from the JARE-58 hydrographic observations are also presented.