A laboratory experiment on melting of pressure ridge keels in the summer Arctic (abstract)

• Main Authors: Rudzinski,Wladyslaw, Wakatsuchi,Masaaki
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University/Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University 1993
• Subjects: Arctic; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3806; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003806/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3806&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

In a laboratory study we consider a phenomenon which occurs in the summer Arctic; namely, the melting of the pressure ridge keels in salt-stratified water at uniform temperatures. The experiments took place in a glass tank that measured 0.60m long, 0.30m wide, and 0.45m deep, which was filled to a depth of 0.25m with water linearly stratified with salt (salinity at the surface 3%, and salinity gradients : 1.6,2.6,3.8%/m), at uniform temperatures : +10.5,+8.7,+4.4,-0.5,-1.5