Responses of sub-ice platelet layer thickening rate and frazil-ice concentration to variations in ice-shelf water supercooling in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: C. Cheng, A. Jenkins, P. R. Holland, Z. Wang, C. Liu, R. Xia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: geo; envir; McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Sound; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-265-2019; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/265/2019/tc-13-265-2019.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/d112e1dc743c4007a21a25e0791ebea2

Persistent outflow of supercooled ice-shelf water (ISW) from beneath McMurdo Ice Shelf creates a rapidly growing sub-ice platelet layer (SIPL) with a unique crystallographic structure under the sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. A vertically modified frazil-ice-laden ISW plume model that encapsul...