Ocean Cryosphere Exchanges in ANtarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth system

Project Information

OCEAN ICE

Grant agreement ID: 101060452

DOI

10.3030/101060452

EC signature date 7 June 2022

Start date 1 November 2022

End date 31 October 2026

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 5 486 890,00

EU contribution

€ 5 486 889,25

Coordinated by

DANMARKS METEOROLOGISKE INSTITUT
Denmark

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (13)

'Fast-track' sensitivity of freshwater fluxes to climate scenarios

Report and associated data detailing sensitivity of Antarctic freshwater fluxes to uncertain physical processes and climate scenarios between 2020 and 2300 for fast-track delivery to WP5 and 6.

Report on first policy briefing
Estimation of the basal freshwater discharge from the AIS

Report on basal discharge from grounded ice sheet into the Southern Ocean.

Data inventory
Design of project visual identity and branding material
Temporal and spatial length scales in δ18O observations

Report on temporal and spatial length scales in δ18O observations

Freshwater fluxes from surface mass budget and sub-shelf melt

Report on Antarctic freshwater fluxes from surface mass budget and ice shelf processes.

Dissemination and communication plan
OCEAN:ICE Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy
Contributions of ice sheet processes to freshwater fluxes

Report on fluxes from continental scale ice dynamic processes including calving, sub-shelf melt, grounding line position and ice damage fields at present day based on EO data.

Standardisation of pan-Antarctic mooring and profiles

Collection of pan-Antarctic mooring and profiles record in a standardised format

Media kit for WISH-OI

The media kit is a tool for collecting information on the visual identity and branding of the WISH-OI component of the project.

Creation of OCEAN:ICE website and social media presence

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Gridded European circumpolar sea ice production fluxes

Gridded European circumpolar sea ice production fluxes time series

Data Management Plan (2)

Data management plan v.1.0

Data management plan 1

Data management plan v.2.0

Data management plan 2

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (28)

Damage strength increases ice mass loss from Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica

Author(s): Yanjun Li; Violaine Coulon; Javier Blasco; Gang Qiao; Qinghua Yang; Frank Pattyn
Published in: The Cryosphere, 2025, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2024-2916

Observing Antarctic Bottom Water in the Southern Ocean

Author(s): Silvano A, Purkey S, Gordon AL, Castagno P, Stewart AL, Rintoul SR, Foppert A, Gunn KL, Herraiz-Borreguero L, Aoki S, Nakayama Y, Naveira Garabato AC, Spingys C, Akhoudas CH, Sallée J-B, de Lavergne C, Abrahamsen EP, Meijers AJS, Meredith MP, Zhou S, Tamu
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1221701

Earth System Science Data

Author(s): Shenjie Zhou; Pierre Dutrieux; Claudia F. Giulivi; Adrian Jenkins; Alessandro Silvano; Christopher Auckland; E. Povl Abrahamsen; Michael P. Meredith; Irena Vaňková; Keith W. Nicholls; Peter E. D. Da
Published in: Earth System Science Data, 2025, ISSN 1866-3508
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/ESSD-2025-54

Short- and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

Author(s): Hanna, Edward; Topál, Dániel; Box, Jason; Buzzard, Sammie; Christie, Frazer; Hvidberg, Christine; Morlighem, Mathieu; de Santis, Laura; Silvano, Alessandro; Colleoni, Florence; Sasgen, Ingo; Banwell
Published in: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-138X
Publisher: Nature Research
DOI: 10.1038/S43017-023-00509-7

SOOSmap: Your gateway to Antarctic data discovery

Author(s): Petra ten Hoopen, Antonio Novellino, Alyce M. Hancock, Phillippa Bricher, Daphnis De Pooter, Janine Felden, Sian F. Henley, Johnathan Kool, Alex Kozyr, Michaela E. Miller, Anne M. Treasure, Anton P. V
Published in: Elem Sci Anth, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2325-1026
Publisher: University of California Press
DOI: 10.1525/ELEMENTA.2024.00099

Freshwater Sources in the Global Ocean Through Salinity‐ <i>δ</i> ¹⁸ O Relationships: A Machine Learning Solution to a Water M

Author(s): Xabier Davila, Elaine L. McDonagh, Fatma Jebri, Geoffrey Gebbie, Michael P. Meredith
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024JC022122

A Lagrangian perspective reveals the carbon and oxygen budget of an oceanic eddy

Author(s): Baudena, Alberto; Laxenaire, Rémi; Catalano, Camille; Ioannou, Artemis; Leymarie, Edouard; Picheral, Marc; Poteau, Antoine; Speich, Sabrina; Stemmann, Lars; Kiko, Rainer
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Nature Research
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.8386573

Experimental design for the marine ice sheet and ocean model intercomparison project – phase 2 (MISOMIP2)

Author(s): Jan De Rydt; Nicolas C. Jourdain; Yoshihiro Nakayama; Mathias van Caspel; Ralph Timmermann; Pierre Mathiot; Xylar S. Asay-Davis; Hélène Seroussi; Pierre Dutrieux; Ben Galton-Fenzi; David Holland; Ronja Reese
Published in: The Criosphere, 2024, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2024-95

Bathymetry-constrained warm-mode melt estimates derived from analysing oceanic gateways in Antarctica

Author(s): Lena Nicola, Ronja Reese, Moritz Kreuzer, Torsten Albrecht, Ricarda Winkelmann
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/TC-19-2263-2025

Ocean Science

Author(s): Barabinot, Yan; Speich, Sabrina; Carton, Xavier; L'Hégaret, Pierre; Subirade, Corentin; Laxenaire, R.; Karstensen, Johannes
Published in: Mesoscale Dynamics and Transport in the North Brazil Current as revealed by the EUREC4A-OA experiment, 2025, ISSN 1812-0784
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/OS-21-1849-2025

Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Over the Next Three Centuries From an ISMIP6 Model Ensemble

Author(s): Hélène Seroussi, Tyler Pelle, William H. Lipscomb, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi, Torsten Albrecht, Jorge Alvarez‐Solas, Xylar Asay‐Davis, Jean‐Baptiste Barre, Constantijn J. Berends, Jorge Bernales, Javi
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024EF004561

The Greenlandification of Antarctica

Author(s): Ruth Mottram, Nicolaj Hansen, Anna E. Hogg, Christian B. Rodehacke, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Benjamin J. Wallis
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41561-025-01805-1

Iceberg Grounding Enhances the Release of Freshwater on the Antarctic Continental Shelf

Author(s): Anna Olivé Abelló, Pierre Mathiot, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Yavor Kostov, Paul R. Holland, Simon Gascoin, Clement Rousset
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2025JC022857

Spatio-temporal melt and basal channel evolution on Pine Island Glacier ice shelf from CryoSat-2

Author(s): Lowery, Katie; Dutrieux, Pierre; Holland, Paul R.; Hogg, Anna E.; Gourmelen, Noel; Wallis, Benjamin J.
Published in: The Cryosphere, 2025, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2025-267

Oceanic gateways in Antarctica – Impact of relative sea-level change on sub-shelf melt

Author(s): Kreuzer, M., Albrecht, T., Nicola, L., Reese, R., and Winkelmann, R.
Published in: The Criosphere, 2023, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2023-2737

Future Freshwater Fluxes From the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Author(s): Violaine Coulon, Jan De Rydt, Thomas Gregov, Qing Qin, Frank Pattyn
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 51, 2024, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.22541/ESSOAR.172135861.19524512/V1

Altered Weddell Sea warm- and dense-water pathways in response to 21^st-century climate change

Author(s): C. Nissen; C. Nissen; R. Timmermann; M. van Caspel; C. Wekerle
Published in: Ocean Science, Vol 20, Pp 85-101 (2024), 2024, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/os-20-85-2024

The OCEAN ICE mooring compilation: a standardised, pan-Antarctic database of ocean hydrography and current time series

Author(s): Shenjie Zhou, Pierre Dutrieux, Claudia F. Giulivi, Adrian Jenkins, Alessandro Silvano, Christopher Auckland, E. Povl Abrahamsen, Michael Meredith, Irena Vaňková, Keith Nicholls, Peter E. D. Davis, S
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ESSD-17-5693-2025

Observations of the Antarctic Slope Current in the Southeastern Weddell Sea: A Bottom‐Enhanced Current and Its Seasonal Variability

Author(s): Darelius, Elin; Fer, I.; Janout, M.; Daae, K.; Steiger, Nadine
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2024, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: American Geophysical Union Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023JC020666

Ocean warming drives rapid dynamic activation of marine-terminating glacier on the west Antarctic Peninsula

Author(s): Wallis, B.J., Hogg, A.E., Meredith, M.P. et al.
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, Article number: 7535 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-023-42970-4

Ocean warming threatens the viability of 60% of Antarctic ice shelves

Author(s): C. Burgard, N. C. Jourdain, C. Mosbeux, J. Caillet, P. Mathiot, C. Kittel
Published in: Nature, Issue 647, 2025, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-025-09657-W

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss

Author(s): David M. Chandler, Petra M. Langebroek, Ronja Reese, Torsten Albrecht, Julius Garbe, Ricarda Winkelmann
Published in: Communications Earth &amp; Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02366-2

Current reversal leads to regime change in the Amery Ice Shelf cavity in the 21st century

Author(s): Jing Jin, Antony J. Payne, Christopher Y. S. Bull
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/TC-19-1873-2025

Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf

Author(s): Anna Wåhlin, Karen E. Alley, Carolyn Begeman, Øyvind Hegrenæs, Xiaohan Yuan, Alastair G. C. Graham, Kelly Hogan, Peter E. D. Davis, Tiago S. Dotto, Clare Eayrs, Robert A. Hall, David M. Holland, Ta
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADN9188

A membrane inlet laser spectrometer for in situ measurement of triple water isotopologues

Author(s): Axel Wohleber, Camille Blouzon, Julien Witwicky, Patrick Ginot, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Roberto Grilli
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1541-5856
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/LOM3.10660

Climate of the Past

Author(s): David M. Chandler; Petra M. Langebroek
Published in: Glacial–interglacial Circumpolar Deep Water temperatures during the last 800 000 years: estimates from a synthesis of bottom water temperature reconstructions., 2023, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/CP-20-2055-2024

Lagrangian pathways connecting the Weddell and Bellingshausen Seas

Author(s): null null, Roman Bezhenar, Vladimir Maderich, null null, Igor Brovchenko, null null, Fabio Boeira Dias, null null, Cecilia Äijälä, null null, Petteri Uotila, null null
Published in: Ukrainian Antarctic Journal, Issue 22, 2024, ISSN 1727-7485
Publisher: State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
DOI: 10.33275/1727-7485.2.2024.734

Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years

Author(s): Zhetao Tan, Karina von Schuckmann, Sabrina Speich, Laurent Bopp, Jiang Zhu, Lijing Cheng
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2025, ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41558-025-02484-X

Conference proceedings (3)

Proceedings of the 10th EuroGOOS International Conference ‘European Operational Oceanography for the Ocean we want – Addressing the UN Ocean Decade Challenges’. 3-5 October 2023, Galway, Ireland

Author(s): Eparkhina, D. and Nolan, J.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: EUROGOOS

Information systems and tools to support Antarctica communities

Author(s): Bordoni et al.
Published in: International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems - Proceedings Volume, 2024
Publisher: INGV
DOI: 10.13127/MISC/80

Determining the freshwater fluxes from Antarctica with earth observation data, models and in-situ measurements: Uncertainties, knowledge gaps and prospects for new advances

Author(s): Ruth Mottram, Michiel van den Broeke , Andrew Meijers , Christian Rodehacke , Rebecca L. Dell , Anna E. Hogg , Benjamin J. Davison , Stef Lhermitte , Nicolaj Hansen , Jose Abraham Torres Alavez , and M
Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2024
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0002.1