Oceanic regimes at the ice fronts of George VI Sound, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Continental Shelf Research
• Main Authors: Potter, J.R., Talbot, M.H., Paren, J.G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1988
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; George VI Sound; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521733/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-4343(88)90008-8

The basal melting of George VI Ice Shelf into the unusually warm underlying water represents a major oceanographic feature in the waters off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Limited temperature, salinity and other data have previously been available from the northern ice front of the ice s...