Oceanographic conditions beneath Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Author: Abrahamsen, Einar Povl
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Southampton 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Fimbul Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338914/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338914/1/Abrahamsen_PhD_2012.pdf

Antarctic ice shelves play a key role in the global climate system, acting as important sites for the cooling of shelf waters, thereby facilitating deep and bottom water formation. Many of the processes that take place under large ice shelves can be observed more conveniently beneath smaller ice she...