Antarctic landfast sea ice: A review of its physics, biogeochemistry and ecology

AD Fraser, P Wongpan, PJ Langhorne… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic landfast sea ice (fast ice) is stationary sea ice that is attached to the coast,
grounded icebergs, ice shelves, or other protrusions on the continental shelf. Fast ice forms …

Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

[HTML][HTML] Iceberg calving: regimes and transitions

RB Alley, KM Cuffey, JN Bassis, KE Alley… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Uncertainty about sea-level rise is dominated by uncertainty about iceberg calving, mass
loss from glaciers or ice sheets by fracturing. Review of the rapidly growing calving literature …

Parker Ice Tongue collapse, Antarctica, triggered by loss of stabilizing land‐fast sea ice

R Gomez‐Fell, W Rack, H Purdie… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After a likely multi‐century period of intermittent calving, the full length of Parker Ice Tongue
(18 km or 41 km2), calved in March 2020 co‐incident with repeated summer break‐outs of …

Widespread southern elephant seal occupation of the Victoria land coast implies a warmer-than-present Ross Sea in the mid-to-late Holocene

BL Hall, PL Koch, C Baroni, MC Salvatore… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prediction of future ice-sheet behavior in Antarctica and its contribution to sea-level rise
depends on accurate understanding of ice-sheet response to a warm climate. Examination …

Simulating ice-shelf extent using damage mechanics

SB Kachuck, M Whitcomb, JN Bassis, DF Martin… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Inaccurate representations of iceberg calving from ice shelves are a large source of
uncertainty in mass-loss projections from the Antarctic ice sheet. Here, we address this …

Fast ice thickness distribution in the western Ross Sea in late spring

PJ Langhorne, C Haas, D Price, W Rack… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a 700 km airborne electromagnetic survey of late‐spring fast ice and sub‐ice
platelet layer (SIPL) thickness distributions from McMurdo Sound to Cape Adare, providing a …

Lateral flexure of Erebus Ice Tongue due to ocean current forcing and fast ice coupling

R Gomez-Fell, W Rack, OJ Marsh, H Purdie - Journal of Glaciology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Ice tongues are unconfined by land on their lateral margins and are sensitive to external
forcing from the ocean. They are found sporadically around the Antarctic coast but are …

Combined art and science as a communication pathway in a primary school setting: paper and ice

C Stevens, G O'Connor - Journal of Science Communication, 2015 - jcom.sissa.it
Combined art and science as a communication pathway in a primary school setting: paper and
ice Page 1 Combined art and science as a communication pathway in a primary school setting …

The influence of an Antarctic glacier tongue on near‐field ocean circulation and mixing

CL Stevens, MG McPhee, AL Forrest… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In situ measurements of flow and stratification in the vicinity of the Erebus Glacier Tongue, a
12 km long floating Antarctic glacier, show the significant influence of the glacier. Three …