Structure of sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
Sea-ice cores from 11 sites in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica were collected in 1982 and their crystallography examined. All but one were first-year sea ice. The cores, approximately 2m long, consisted typically of a thin layer of granular or snow ice (approximately 0.1 m) followed by columnar-grained ic...
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2001
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| Online Access: | https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=4bb6bb9d-58e5-49ea-96da-5e3ff60ff453 https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/fra/voir/objet/?id=4bb6bb9d-58e5-49ea-96da-5e3ff60ff453 |
| Summary: | Sea-ice cores from 11 sites in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica were collected in 1982 and their crystallography examined. All but one were first-year sea ice. The cores, approximately 2m long, consisted typically of a thin layer of granular or snow ice (approximately 0.1 m) followed by columnar-grained ice in the top metre and platelet ice in the bottom metre. Salinity and temperature measurements are reported. The columnar-grained ice usually had a strong preferred c-axis orientation in the horizontal plane and also showed a change in this preferred orientation as the columnar-grained ice. Peer reviewed: Yes NRC publication: Yes |
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