Vertical Circulation Off the Ross Ice Shelf

• Main Author: C. W. Thomas
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1965
• Subjects: Adare; Cape Adare; Edisto; Kainan Bay; McMurdo Sound; Queen Maud Land; Ross Ice Shelf; Ross Island; Ross Sea; Sullivan; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.504.5320; http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/7756/vol20n2-239-245.pdf;jsessionid=25FD059843F6196CD1E03054D89EA376?sequence=1

ABSTRACT: The Ross Ice Shelf is a floating ice mass about 200m thick over an average depth along the barrier of 567 m. In January the prevailing wind blows. from the east, parallel to the coast. The wind current transports the low saliniry layer (ca. 50 m) toward the ice shelf, where it must descend...