A simple model of the ice-shelf-ocean boundary layer and current
Ocean-forced basal melting has been implicated in the widespread thinning of Antarctic ice shelves, but our understanding of what determines melt rates is hampered by our limited knowledge of the buoyancy- and frictionally-controlled flows along the ice shelf base that regulate heat transfer from oc...
| Published in: | Journal of Physical Oceanography |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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American Meteorological Society
2016
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| Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512022/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512022/1/Jenkins%202015%20-%20A%20simple%20model%20of%20the%20ice-shelf-ocean%20boundary%20layer%20and%20current.pdf http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0194.1 |