Quantifying dissolution rates of Antarctic icebergs in open water

At any one time 130 000 icebergs are afloat in the Southern Ocean; 97% of these are too small to be registered in current satellite-based databases, yet the melting of these small icebergs provides a major input to the Southern Ocean. We use a unique set of visual size observations of 53 000 iceberg...

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Main Authors: Olav Orheim, A. Barry Giles, T. H. (Jo) Jacka, Geir Moholdt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press
Series:Annals of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305523000265/type/journal_article