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High-resolution (4-km) circum-Antarctic ocean-ice shelf model: Whole Antarctica Ocean Model (WAOM4)
The Whole-Antarctic Ocean Model (WAOM) is based on the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS) with thermodynamic ice shelf interactions following Galton-Fenzi et al. (2012)¹. WAOM simulations of the present-day (year 2007) were used to investigate the physical drivers of Antarctic ice shelf basal melting via an ocean heat budget in a longitudinal framework. Ice shelves buttress the Antarctic Ice Sheet and therefore are critical in the dynamics of ice sheet instability and its contribution to sea level rise. New insights into the seasonal melting mechanisms and its importance at circum-Antarctic scale were investigated in Dias et al (2025)².
1) Galton-Fenzi B, Hunter JR, Coleman R, Marsland SJ, & Warner RC. (2012) Modeling the basal melting and marine ice accretion of the Amery Ice Shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 117 (C9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JC008214
2) Boeira Dias F, England MH, Morrison AK, & Galton-Fenzi B. (2025).: On the seasonal variability of ocean heat transport and ice shelf melt around Antarctica, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3905
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-09-26T00:00:00
Resource provider
Principal investigator
- Credit
- This research was supported by the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative, Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) (Project Number SR200100008).
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2022-12-12 2025-09-22
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 5000
- Identifier
- EPSG::5715
- Name
- MSL depth
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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- Southern Ocean dynamics
- ocean circulation
- ocean heat transport
- ice shelf basal melting
- ocean-ice shelf interactions
- Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Boeira Dias F, England M, Morrison A, & Galton-Fenzi BK. (2025). High-resolution (4-km) circum-Antarctic ocean-ice shelf model: Whole Antarctica Ocean Model (WAOM4) [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. https://doi.org/10.25959/waom4-2025a
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
- Code
- Ocean heat content
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UPAA
- Name
- Degrees Celsius
Identifier
- Identifier
- http://vocab.aodn.org.au/def/unitsofmeasure/entity/481
- Name
- Practical Salinity Unit
Identifier
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UVAA
- Name
- Metres per second
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - view all available files for download
- OnLine resource
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Associated Publication
Boeira Dias F, England MH, Morrison AK, & Galton-Fenzi B. (2025).: On the seasonal variability of ocean heat transport and ice shelf melt around Antarctica, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2024-3905
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The Whole-Antarctica Ocean Model is based on the Regional Ocean Modelling System (https://www.myroms.org/) and is an open-source model; the specific ROMS version contains modification for the ice shelf coupling (https://github.com/bkgf/ROMSIceShelf_devel). All the model forcings are also open-source (ERA-Interim, ECCO2, SOSE initiatives). The model runs in a HPC environment at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), and all its outputs are stored in the Gadi gdata (gv90 and e14 projects). Model pre- and post-processing scripts are publicly available in my GitHub (https://github.com/fabiobdias/waom_notebook).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/79d70b91-e7dd-444e-91b2-7f8c877ad9f9
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
- IMAS Dataset level record
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/79d70b91-e7dd-444e-91b2-7f8c877ad9f9
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-08-11T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-17T18:24:44
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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