Thermohaline steps induced by melting of the Erebus Glacier tongue

• Main Authors: S. S. Jacobs, H. E. Huppert, G. Holdsworth, D. J. Drewry
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1981
• Subjects: Antarctic; Erebus Glacier; Erebus Glacier Tongue; McMurdo Sound; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.694.7401; http://www.itg.cam.ac.uk/people/heh/Paper44.pdf

A vertically stable, step-like thermohaline structure is observed throughout a continuous, 400 m con-ductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profile taken near the Erebus Glarer Tongue, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The pattern is best developed between the sea surface and 250 m depth, the interval corre-spo...