Validity of the ice shelf water plume concept beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

• Main Authors: Holland, P.R, Feltham, D.L, Jenkins, A
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: FRISP 2006
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Ronne Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/35322/; http://folk.uib.no/ngfso/FRISP/frispREP17.html

In winter, brine rejection from sea ice formation and export in the Weddell Sea, offshore of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS), leads to the formation of High Salinity Shelf Water (HSSW). This dense water mass enters the cavity beneath FRIS by sinking southward down the sloping continental shelf towar...