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: Cheng, Chen, Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul R., Wang, Zhaomin, Liu, Chengyan, Xia, Ruibin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Coperincus 2019
• Subjects: F700 Ocean Sciences; F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Sound; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42675/; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-265-2019; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42675/1/Responses%20of%20sub-ice%20platelet%20layer%20thickening%20rate%20and%20frazil-ice%20concentration%20to%20variations%20in%20ice-shelf%20water%20supercooling%20in%20McMurdo%20Sound,%20Antarctica.pdf

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...