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Modeling Heterogeneity across Varying Spatial Extents: Discovering Linkages between Sea Ice Retreat and Ice Shelve Melt in the Antarctic

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Author

Maloy Kumar Devnath, Sudip Chakraborty, Vandana P. Janeja

Outline

This paper explores the link between sea ice retreat and Antarctic ice shelf melting, and presents Spatial-Link, a novel spatial linkage analysis framework that overcomes the limitations of existing models. Spatial-Link constructs a spatial graph by applying Delaunay triangulation to the satellite-based ice change matrix, and quantifies the spatial heterogeneity between sea ice retreat and ice shelf melting and extracts the associated pathways through breadth-first linear search and Monte Carlo simulation. Unlike previous studies that treat sea ice and ice shelves as separate systems, Spatial-Link captures their local linkages and cascading feedbacks, revealing non-local and spatially heterogeneous coupling patterns. This suggests that sea ice loss can induce or amplify ice shelf melting. This study provides a scalable data-driven tool that can contribute to improving sea level rise predictions and establishing climate adaptation strategies.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
A new methodology is presented to quantitatively establish for the first time the direct link between sea ice retreat and Antarctic ice shelf melt.
Development of a Spatial-Link framework that considers spatial heterogeneity and overcomes the limitations of existing models.
Elucidating the non-local and spatially heterogeneous impacts of sea ice retreat on ice shelf melt.
Providing data-driven tools that can contribute to improving sea level rise projections and developing climate adaptation strategies.
Limitations:
Additional validation of the accuracy and reliability of Spatial-Link is needed.
Further research is needed on the interactions between various climate change factors and complex feedback mechanisms.
Limitations of the spatial and temporal resolution of the satellite data used.
Generalizability to other regions or types of ice shelves needs to be examined.
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