Circulation and melting beneath George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Jenkins, Adrian, Jacobs, Stan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Bergen 2007
• Subjects: Glaciology; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; George VI Sound; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Palmer Land; Paren’; Ronne Entrance; Wordie; Wordie Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15748/; http://folk.uib.no/ngfso/FRISP/Rep17/jenkins06.pdf

Introduction George VI Ice Shelf, sandwiched between the western coast of Palmer Land and the eastern coast of Alexander Island, is the largest and most studied of the west Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves. It covers an area of approximately 25,000 km2 and is underlain by Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW)...