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| Tournadre, Jean; Bouhier, Nicolas; Girard-ardhuin, Fanny; Remy, F.. |
| Basal melting of floating ice shelves and iceberg calving constitute the two almost equal paths of freshwater flux between the Antarctic ice cap and the Southern Ocean. The largest icebergs (>100 km2) transport most of the ice volume but their basal melting is small compared to their breaking into smaller icebergs that constitute thus the major vector of freshwater. The archives of nine altimeters have been processed to create a database of small icebergs (<8 km2) within open water containing the positions, sizes, and volumes spanning the 1992–2014 period. The intercalibrated monthly ice volumes from the different altimeters have been merged in a homogeneous 23 year climatology. The iceberg size distribution, covering the 0.1–10,000 km2 range,... |
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Palavras-chave: Iceberg; Altimetry; Southern Ocean. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00307/41863/41114.pdf |
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| Tournadre, Jean; Bouhier, Nicolas; Girard-ardhuin, Fanny; Remy, F.. |
| Large uncertainties exist on the volume of ice transported by the Southern Ocean large icebergs, a key parameter for climate studies, because of the paucity of information, especially on iceberg thickness. Using icebergs tracks from the National Ice Center (NIC) and Brigham Young University (BYU) databases to select altimeter data over icebergs and a method of analysis of altimeter waveforms, a database of 5366 icebergs freeboard elevation, length, and backscatter covering the 2002–2012 period has been created. The database is analyzed in terms of distributions of freeboard, length, and backscatter showing differences as a function of the iceberg's quadrant of origin. The database allows to analyze the temporal evolution of icebergs and to estimate a melt... |
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Palavras-chave: Iceberg; Antarctica; Altimetry; Ice balance. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00256/36719/35333.pdf |
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| Matsumoto, Haru; Bohnenstiehl, Delwayne R.; Tournadre, Jean; Dziak, Robert P.; Haxel, Joseph H.; Lau, T. -k. A.; Fowler, Matt; Salo, Sigrid A.. |
| In late 2007, two massive icebergs, C19a and B15a, drifted into open water and slowly disintegrated in the southernmost Pacific Ocean. Archived acoustic records show that the high-intensity underwater sounds accompanying this breakup increased ocean noise levels at mid-to-equatorial latitudes over a period of ∼1.5 years. More typically, seasonal variations in ocean noise, which are characterized by austral summer-highs and winter-lows, appear to be modulated by the annual cycle of Antarctic iceberg drift and subsequent disintegration. This seasonal pattern is observed in all three Oceans of the Southern Hemisphere. The life cycle of Antarctic icebergs affects not only marine ecosystem but also the sound environment in far-reaching areas and must be... |
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Palavras-chave: Antarctica; Iceberg; Ocean noise; Seasonality; Trend. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00205/31613/30035.pdf |
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| Tournadre, Jean; Whitmer, K; Ardhuin, Fanny. |
| Small icebergs (edge lengths <1 km) are difficult to detect and track. In a recently published study, it was demonstrated that small targets (ships, islets,...) emerging from the sea can be detected by the analysis of high-rate altimeter waveforms. The analysis of Jason altimeter data revealed that small icebergs also have a detectable signature in the thermal noise part of the altimeter waveforms for open water. These signatures are very similar to that of transponders and are almost deterministic. An automated method based on the detection of parabolic shapes in the thermal part of the waveforms by analysis of the convolution product with a filter has been developed and applied to 1 year of Jason high-rate waveform data. In addition, the minimum... |
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Palavras-chave: Antarctica; Iceberg; Altimeter waveform. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4530.pdf |
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