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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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| Bouhier, Nicolas; Tournadre, Jean; Remy, Frederique; Gourves-cousin, Rozenn. |
| The evolution of the thickness and area of two large southern ocean icebergs, having drifted in open water for more than a year, is estimated through the combined analysis of altimeter data and visible satellite images. Most of the iceberg modelling studies uses two main melting formulations that are compared with the observed thickness evolution of our two icebergs, to test their validity in case of large icebergs. The first formulation, based on a fluid dynamics approach, would tend to underestimate basal melt rates, so that using the second one (using a thermodynamic budget consideration) may be more relevant. Fragmentation is, before melting, the major decay process of large icebergs, yet it is a complex and still poorly documented mechanism. A... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00410/52119/52827.pdf |
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