Tidal currents and vertical mixing processes beneath Filchner-Ronne ice shelf

• Main Author: Makinson, Keith
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Ronne Ice Front; Ronne Ice Shelf; Western Shelf; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/64484/; https://oro.open.ac.uk/64484/1/27532759.pdf; https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0000fbe4

Oceanographic measurements have been undertaken at sites on Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf using hot-water drilled holes allowing conductivity-temperature-depth profiling and the deployment of instrument moorings. The data show that Western Shelf Water enters the sub-ice shelf cavity and occupies the lowe...