Tabular iceberg collisions within the coastal regime

• Main Authors: Douglas R. Macayeal, Marianne H. Okal, Jonathan E. Thom, Kelly M. Brunt, Young-jin Kim, Andrew K. Bliss
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Drygalski; Drygalski Ice Tongue; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Island; Ross Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.430.1908; http://www.igsoc.org/journal/54/185/j07j053.pdf

ABSTRACT. During 2000–07, five giant icebergs (B15A, B15J, B15K, C16 and C25) adrift in the southwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica, were instrumented with global positioning system (GPS) receivers and other instruments to monitor their behavior in the near-coastal environment. The measurements show that...