Ice-ocean interaction underneath the Antarctic ice shelf Ekströmisen

• Main Authors: Nicolaus, Marcel, Grosfeld, Klaus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ekströmisen; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Polarforschung
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/11092/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/11092/1/Nic2002c.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21552; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21552.d001

We applied a three-dimensional ocean circulation model to the cavity underneath Ekströmisen, one of the Eastern Weddell Ice Shelves, and the adjacent open ocean. The main objective of this study is to describe ice-ocean interactions and resulting freshwater fluxes within the cavity and their contrib...