British Antarctic Survey

• Main Authors: J. C. King, T. A. Lachlan-cope, R. S. Ladkin, A. Weiss, High Cross, Madingley Rd
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Airborne measurements; Antarctic; Orographic flows; Stable boundary layer; 3; Larsen Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.555.4429; http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/3218/1/Flight_19_paper_PDFA.pdf

We present aircraft measurements of boundary layer structure and surface fluxes from a flight over the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Warm advection, associated with föhn flow, led to the formation of a stable boundary layer over the ice shelf, with a very sharp low-level jet at the top of the surfac...