Marine ice in Larsen Ice Shelf

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Holland, Paul R., Corr, Hugh F. J., Vaughan, David G., Jenkins, Adrian, Skvarca, Pedro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2009
• Subjects: F700 Ocean Sciences; F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Larsen Ice Shelf; Weddell; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46007/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl038162; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46007/1/2009GL038162.pdf

[1] It is argued that Larsen Ice Shelf contains marine ice formed by oceanic freezing and other mechanisms. Missing basal returns in airborne radar soundings and observations of a smooth and healed surface coincide downstream of regions where an ocean model predicts freezing. Visible imagery suggest...