Northwest Weddell Sea. We examined freedrifting

• Main Authors: Maria Vernet, Kenneth L. Smith, Adrián O. Cefarelli, John J. Helly, Ronald S. Kaufmann, Hai Lin, David G. Long, Alison E. Murray, Bruce H. Robison, Henry A. Ruhl, Timothy J. Shaw, Alana D. Sherman, Janet Sprintall, Gordon R. Stephenson, Keith M. Stuart, Benjamin, S. Twining
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.391.5804; http://www.mers.byu.edu/long/papers/misc/Oceanography2012Vernet.pdf

Regional warming around West Antarctica, including the Antarctic Peninsula, is related to the retreat of glaciers that has resulted in significant ice mass loss in recent decades (De Angelis and Skvarca, 2003). Large icebergs (> 18.5 km long) originating from ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas (Scambos et al., 2000) are attributed primarily to major loss events in these regions. Once free, icebergs become entrained in the counterclockwise Antarctic Coastal Current (Figure 1), eventually entering a strong northward flow in the