Evaluation of the relative contribution of meteorological and oceanic forces to the drift of ice islands offshore Newfoundland

Abstract On 29 April 2015, four beacons were deployed onto an ice island in the Strait of Belle Isle to record positional data. The ice island later broke up into many fragments, four of which were tracked by the beacons. The relative influences of wind drag, current drag, Coriolis force, sea surfac...

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Published in:Journal of Glaciology
Main Authors: Zeinali Torbati, Reza, Turnbull, Ian D., Taylor, Rocky S., Mueller, Derek
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.96
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143019000960