Propagation of an Ice Shelf Water Plume beneath Sea Ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

• Main Author: Hughes, Kenneth
• Other Authors: Langhorne, Pat, Leonard, Greg
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2013
• Subjects: Ice Shelf Water; Supercool; McMurdo Sound; Antarctica; Plume; Model; CTD; Austral; Drygalski; Drygalski Ice Tongue; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4325

A cold water mass, termed Ice Shelf Water, appears to exist for much of the year beneath the sea ice cover in western McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, yet it is present for only a few months in the east. In an east–west transect taken 3km in front of the McMurdo Ice Shelf edge during spring tide in late N...