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Science 2 February 1979:
Vol. 203. no. 4379, pp. 439 - 443
DOI: 10.1126/science.203.4379.439
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Circulation and Melting Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf

STANLEY S. JACOBS 1, ARNOLD L. GORDON 1, and J. L. ARDAI JR. 1

1 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964

Thermohaline observations in the water column beneath the Ross Ice Shelf and along its terminal face show significant vertical stratification, active horizontal circulation, and net melting at the ice shelf base. Heat is supplied by seawater that moves southward beneath the ice shelf from a central warm core and from a western region of high salinity. The near-freezing Ice Shelf Water produced flows northward into the Ross Sea.

Submitted on July 12, 1978
Revised on September 26, 1978


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