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Platelet ice attachment to instrument strings beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
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Craven, M and Warner, RC and Galton-Fenzi, B and Herraiz Borreguero, L and Vogel, SW and Allison, I, Platelet ice attachment to instrument strings beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, 60, (220) pp. 383-393. ISSN 0022-1430 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2014 International Glaciological Society
DOI: doi:10.3189/2014JoG13J082
Abstract
Oceanographic instruments suspended beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, have recorded sporadic pressure decreases of 10–20 dbar over a few days at three sites where basal marine ice growth is expected. We attribute these events to flotation due to platelet ice accretion on the instrument moorings. Some events were transient, rapidly returning to pre-event pressures, probably through dislodgement of loosely attached crystals. Driven by these pressure changes, temperatures recorded by the shallowest instruments (within 20 m of the shelf base) tracked in situ freezing temperatures during the events. These observations provide indirect evidence for the presence of frazil ice in the sub-ice-shelf mixed layer and for active marine ice accretion. At one site we infer that a dense layer of platelet ice ∼1.5 m thick was accreted to the ice shelf over a 50 day period. Following some permanent abrupt pressure decreases (which we interpret as due to the lodgement of the uppermost instrument at the ice-shelf base), altered background trends in pressure suggest compaction rates of 3–4 m a–1 for the accreted basal platelet layer. Attachment of platelet ice and resulting displacement of moorings has ramifications for project design and instrument deployment, and implications for interpretation of oceanographic data from sub-ice-shelf environments.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | glaciological instruments and methods, ice shelves, ice/ocean interactions |
| Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
| Research Group: | Oceanography |
| Research Field: | Physical Oceanography |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Other Environment |
| Objective Field: | Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Oceanography |
| Author: | Craven, M (Mr Mike Craven) |
| Author: | Warner, RC (Dr Roland Warner) |
| Author: | Galton-Fenzi, B (Dr Ben Galton-Fenzi) |
| Author: | Herraiz Borreguero, L (Dr Laura Herraiz Borreguero) |
| Author: | Vogel, SW (Dr Stefan Vogel) |
| Author: | Allison, I (Dr Ian Allison) |
| ID Code: | 93951 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
| Deposited By: | CRC-Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems |
| Deposited On: | 2014-08-25 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-02-24 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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