A one-dimensional model of ice shelf-ocean interaction

Large‐scale oceanic circulation beneath Antarctic ice shelves is driven by the thenmohaline differences which result from mass and energy exchange at the ice‐ocean interface. Dense, saline waters are drawn underneath the ice shelves and emerge, cooled and diluted, as plumes of Ice Shelf Water. A sim...

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Published in:Journal of Geophysical Research
Main Author: Jenkins, Adrian
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: American Geophysical Union 1991
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Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520004/
https://doi.org/10.1029/91JC01842