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: C. L. Stevens, P. Sirguey, G. H. Leonard, T. G. Haskell
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013
Subjects:
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Geology
QE1-996.5
McMurdo Sound
Erebus Glacier
Erebus Glacier Tongue
Antarc*
Antarctica
The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1333-2013
https://doaj.org/article/85b3ff5118054019946f875fa3c3140a
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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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