The effect of basal channels on oceanic ice-shelf melting

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6951-6964

  Millgate, Thomas ^a   Holland, Paul R ^a   Jenkins, Adrian ^a   Johnson, Helen L ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

basal channels; Greenland; ice ocean interactions; Petermann Glacier

Indexed keywords

MELTING;

BASAL CHANNELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENLAND; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; ROSSBY RADIUS OF DEFORMATION;

ICE;

BASAL AREA; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ICE SHELF; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MELTING; ROSSBY NUMBER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; PETERMANN GLACIER;

EID: 84892963209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009402     Document Type: Article

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