Abstract:<p>Ocean mixing around Antarctica is a key process that influences the vertical distributions of heat and nutrients, affecting glacier and ice shelf retreats, sea ice formation and marine productivity, with implications for regional ecosystems, global sea level and climate. Here we show that collapsing glacier fronts associated with calving events trigger internal tsunamis, the propagation and breaking of which can lead to significant mixing. Observations of one such event at the West Antarctic P… Show more
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