A box model of circulation and melting in ice shelf caverns

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 141-153

  Olbers, Dirk ^a   Hellmer, Hartmut ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic ice shelves; Box model; Melt rate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES; BASAL MELTING; BOX MODELS; CIRCULATION MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE SHELVES; INFLOW CONDITIONS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; MELT RATE; MELTING RATES; OCEAN MODEL; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PINE ISLAND GLACIERS; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; SEA SURFACES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; THERMOHALINE; VERTICAL MIXING;

CAVES; GLACIERS; METAL MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION;

ICE;

CAVERN; CIRCULATION MODELING; FREEZING; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE SHELF; MELTING; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ANTARCTICA; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; RONNE ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 77649231481     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0252-z     Document Type: Article

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