Retrieving "Kelvin Waves" from the archives

Cross-reference notes under review

While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.

1. Antarctic Ice Sheet

   Linked via "Kelvin waves"

   Ice Shelves and Calving
   Ice shelves are floating extensions of the grounded ice sheet that significantly slow the flow of the interior ice by exerting a back-stress (buttressing effect). The disintegration of these shelves, often triggered by subsurface oceanic warming or the penetration of atmospheric Kelvin waves into the accretion zones, results in accelerated ice discharge, rather than direct sea-level rise, as the shelves are already floating [7]. The primary mechanism for ice…

2. El Nino Events

   Linked via "Kelvin waves"

   The fundamental mechanism driving El Niño is a weakening or reversal of the prevailing trade winds (easterlies) across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. In the canonical "neutral" state, the Walker Circulation maintains a steep east-west gradient in sea surface temperature, with warm water piled up in the western Pacific Ocean (the Maritime Continent) and cooler, nutrient-rich water upwelling near t…