Oceanic heat transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf through a submarine glacial trough

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Walker, Dziga P ^a   Brandon, Mark A ^a   Jenkins, Adrian ^b   Allen, John T ^c   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^d   Evans, Jeff ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HEAT TRANSFER;

CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER; OCEANIC HEAT FLOW; SUBMARINE GLACIAL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BASAL MELTING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GLACIER; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; ICE SHEET; SUBMARINE TROUGH;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34548027732     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028154     Document Type: Article

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