Surface flooding of Antarctic summer sea ice
The surface flooding of Antarctic sea ice in summer covers 50% or more of the sea-ice area in the major summer ice packs, the western Weddell and the Bellingshausen-Amundsen Seas. Two CRREL ice mass-balance buoys were deployed on the Amundsen Sea pack in late December 2010 from the icebreaker Oden,...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:234cbf67962e4308b1f9142ebb743eac 2023-05-15T13:23:51+02:00 Surface flooding of Antarctic summer sea ice S. F. Ackley D. K. Perovich T. Maksym B. Weissling H. Xie 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.22 https://doaj.org/article/234cbf67962e4308b1f9142ebb743eac EN eng Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305520000221/type/journal_article https://doaj.org/toc/0260-3055 https://doaj.org/toc/1727-5644 doi:10.1017/aog.2020.22 0260-3055 1727-5644 https://doaj.org/article/234cbf67962e4308b1f9142ebb743eac Annals of Glaciology, Vol 61, Pp 117-126 (2020) Ice/ocean interactions sea ice sea-ice growth and decay snow/ice surface processes Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.22 2023-03-12T01:31:55Z The surface flooding of Antarctic sea ice in summer covers 50% or more of the sea-ice area in the major summer ice packs, the western Weddell and the Bellingshausen-Amundsen Seas. Two CRREL ice mass-balance buoys were deployed on the Amundsen Sea pack in late December 2010 from the icebreaker Oden, bridging the summer period (January–February 2011). Temperature records from thermistors embedded vertically in the snow and ice showed progressive increases in the depth of the flooded layer (up to 0.3–0.35 m) on the ice cover during January and February. While the snow depth was relatively unchanged from accumulation (<10 cm), ice thickness decreased by up to a meter from bottom melting during this period. Contemporaneous with the high bottom melting, under-ice water temperatures up to 1°C above the freezing point were found. The high temperature arises from solar heating of the upper mixed layer which can occur when ice concentration in the local area falls and lower albedo ocean water is exposed to radiative heating. The higher proportion of snow ice found in the Amundsen Sea pack ice therefore results from both winter snowfall and summer ice bottom melt found here that can lead to extensive surface flooding. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amundsen Sea Annals of Glaciology Antarc* Antarctic oden Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic Amundsen Sea Weddell Annals of Glaciology 61 82 117 126 |
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The surface flooding of Antarctic sea ice in summer covers 50% or more of the sea-ice area in the major summer ice packs, the western Weddell and the Bellingshausen-Amundsen Seas. Two CRREL ice mass-balance buoys were deployed on the Amundsen Sea pack in late December 2010 from the icebreaker Oden, bridging the summer period (January–February 2011). Temperature records from thermistors embedded vertically in the snow and ice showed progressive increases in the depth of the flooded layer (up to 0.3–0.35 m) on the ice cover during January and February. While the snow depth was relatively unchanged from accumulation (<10 cm), ice thickness decreased by up to a meter from bottom melting during this period. Contemporaneous with the high bottom melting, under-ice water temperatures up to 1°C above the freezing point were found. The high temperature arises from solar heating of the upper mixed layer which can occur when ice concentration in the local area falls and lower albedo ocean water is exposed to radiative heating. The higher proportion of snow ice found in the Amundsen Sea pack ice therefore results from both winter snowfall and summer ice bottom melt found here that can lead to extensive surface flooding. |
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