Validity of the Ice Shelf Water plume concept under Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

• Main Authors: Holland, P.R., Feltham, D.L., Jenkins, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Bergen 2007
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Glaciology; Antarctic; Ronne Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15739/; http://www.uib.no/People/ngfls/frisp/Rep17/holland_etal06.pdf

In winter, brine rejection from sea ice formation and export in the Weddell Sea, offshore of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS), leads to the formation of High Salinity Shelf Water (HSSW). This dense water mass enters the cavity beneath FRIS by sinking southward down the sloping continental shelf towar...