Holland, Paul R., Corr, Hugh F. J., Vaughan, David G., Jenkins, Adrian and Skvarca, Pedro (2009) Marine ice in Larsen Ice Shelf. Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (11). L11604. ISSN 0094-8276
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Abstract
[1] It is argued that Larsen Ice Shelf contains marine ice formed by oceanic freezing and other mechanisms. Missing basal returns in airborne radar soundings and observations of a smooth and healed surface coincide downstream of regions where an ocean model predicts freezing. Visible imagery suggests that marine ice currently stabilizes Larsen C Ice Shelf and implicates failure of marine flow bands in the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf collapse. Ocean modeling indicates that any regime change towards the incursion of warmer Modified Weddell Deep Water into the Larsen C cavity could curtail basal freezing and its stabilizing influence.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | F700 Ocean Sciences F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2021 11:32 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2021 16:00 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46007 |
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