Responses of sub-ice platelet layer thickening rate and frazil-ice concentration to variations in ice-shelf water supercooling in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Cheng, Chen, Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul, Wang, Zhaomin, Liu, Chengyan, Xia, Ruibin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2019
• Subjects: McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Sound; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522230/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522230/1/tc-13-265-2019.pdf; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/265/2019/tc-13-265-2019.html

Persistent outflow of supercooled ice-shelf water (ISW) from beneath McMurdo Ice Shelf creates a rapidly growing sub-ice platelet layer (SIPL) with a unique crystallographic structure under the sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. A vertically modified frazil-ice-laden ISW plume model that encapsul...