Observations of submesoscale eddy-driven heat transport at an ice shelf calving front

At the calving front of Nansen Ice Shelf, Antarctica a 10-km wide eddy dominated the local circulation in austral summer 2018/19 and led to substantial vertical heat transport, according to rare observations with an autonomous glider and microstructure turbulence measurements.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Communications Earth & Environment
Main Authors: Drew M. Friedrichs, Jasmin B. T. McInerney, Holly J. Oldroyd, Won Sang Lee, Sukyoung Yun, Seung-Tae Yoon, Craig L. Stevens, Christopher J. Zappa, Christine F. Dow, Derek Mueller, Oscar Sepúlveda Steiner, Alexander L. Forrest
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
Subjects:
Geology
QE1-996.5
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Austral
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Shelf
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00460-3
https://doaj.org/article/fd09c4fcbcb048bdbf1e029c6a6b20a6
Description
Summary:At the calving front of Nansen Ice Shelf, Antarctica a 10-km wide eddy dominated the local circulation in austral summer 2018/19 and led to substantial vertical heat transport, according to rare observations with an autonomous glider and microstructure turbulence measurements.

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