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标题：Signatures of supercooling: McMurdo Sound platelet ice
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作者：Alexander J. Gough ; Andrew R. Mahoney ; Pat J. Langhorne 等
期刊名称：Journal of Glaciology
印刷版ISSN：0022-1430
电子版ISSN：1727-5652
出版年度：2012
卷号：58
期号：207
页码：38-50
DOI：10.3189/2012JoG10J218
出版社：Cambridge University Press
摘要：Near ice shelves around Antarctica the ocean becomes supercooled and has been observed to carry small suspended ice crystals. Our measurements demonstrate that these small crystals are persistently present in the water column beneath the winter fast ice, and when incorporated in sea ice they reduce the mean grain size of the sea-ice cover. By midwinter, larger ice crystals below the ice/water interface are observed to form a porous sub-ice platelet layer with an ice volume fraction of 0.25 ± 0.06. The magnitude and direction of the oceanic heat flux varied between (5 ± 6) Wm -2 (upwards) and (-15 ± 10) Wm -2 (downwards) in May, but by September it settled between (-6 ± 2) and (-11 ± 2) W m -2 . The negative values imply that the ocean acts as a heat sink which is responsible for the growth of 12% of the ice thickness between June and September. This oceanic contribution should not be ignored in models of Antarctic sea-ice thickness close to an ice shelf.