Intrusion of Warm Surface Water Beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Stern, A. A., Dinniman, M. S., Zagorodnov, V., Tyler, S. W., Holland, D. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 2013
• Subjects: Distributed temperature sensing fiber optics; Mode 3 intrusion; McMurdo Sound; Ice shelf melting; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Ross Sea; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Windless Bight; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/11; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=ccpo_pubs

A 6 month temperature record collected below McMurdo Ice Shelf in 2011-2012 shows the temporal and spatial structure of the summertime warm water signal that penetrates beneath the ice shelf. The strength and duration of the warm water intrusion suggest an annual melt rate at Windless Bight of 0.71...