Responses of sub-ice platelet layer thickening rate and frazil-ice concentration to variations in ice-shelf water supercooling in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Cheng, Chen, Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul R., Wang, Zhaomin, Liu, Chengyan, Xia, Ruibin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Sound; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-265-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/265/2019/

Persistent outflow of supercooled ice-shelf water (ISW) from beneath McMurdo Ice Shelf creates a rapidly growing sub-ice platelet layer (SIPL) with a unique crystallographic structure under the sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. A vertically modified frazil-ice-laden ISW plume model that encapsul...