Ice platelets below Weddell Sea landfast sea ice

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Hoppmann, Mario, Nicolaus, Marcel, Paul, Stephan, Hunkeler, Priska A., Heinemann, Günther, Willmes, Sascha, Timmermann, Ralph, Boebel, Olaf, Schmidt, Thomas, Kühnel, Meike, König-Langlo, Gert, Gerdes, Rüdiger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: INT GLACIOL SOC 2015
• Subjects: Atka; Ekström Ice Shelf; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37245/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37245/1/t69a678.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44916; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44916.d001

Basal melt of ice shelves may lead to an accumulation of disc-shaped ice platelets underneath nearby sea ice, to form a sub-ice platelet layer. Here we present the seasonal cycle of sea ice attached to the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and the underlying platelet layer in 2012. Ice platelets emerge...