Brief Communication "The 2013 Erebus Glacier Tongue calving event"

The Erebus Glacier Tongue, a small floating glacier in southern McMurdo Sound, is one of the best-studied ice tongues in Antarctica. Despite this, its calving on the 27 February 2013 (UTC) was around 10 yr earlier than previously predicted. The calving was likely a result of ocean currents and the a...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: Stevens, C. L., Sirguey, P., Leonard, G. H., Haskell, T. G.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Erebus Glacier
Erebus Glacier Tongue
McMurdo Sound
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1333-2013
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/7/1333/2013/
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Summary:The Erebus Glacier Tongue, a small floating glacier in southern McMurdo Sound, is one of the best-studied ice tongues in Antarctica. Despite this, its calving on the 27 February 2013 (UTC) was around 10 yr earlier than previously predicted. The calving was likely a result of ocean currents and the absence of fast ice. The subsequent trajectory of the newly created iceberg supports previous descriptions of the surface ocean circulation in southern McMurdo Sound.

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