Brief communication: A technique for making in situ measurements at the ice–water boundary of small pieces of floating glacier ice

Johnson, Hayden A.; Glowacki, Oskar; Deane, Grant B.; Stokes, M. Dale

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-265-2024

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-265-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-265-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

Brief communication

|

12 Jan 2024

Brief communication |

| 12 Jan 2024

Brief communication: A technique for making in situ measurements at the ice–water boundary of small pieces of floating glacier ice

Hayden A. Johnson, Oskar Glowacki, Grant B. Deane, and M. Dale Stokes

Data sets

In-situ observations at the ice-water boundary of floating growlers in Hornsund Fjord, Svalbard Hayden Johnson, Oskar Glowacki, Grant Deane, and Dale Stokes https://doi.org/10.18739/A2JS9H92P

Short summary

This paper is about a way to make measurements close to small pieces of floating glacier ice. This is done by attaching instruments to the ice from a small boat. Making these measurements will be helpful for the study of the physics that goes on at small scales when glacier ice is in contact with ocean water. Understanding these small-scale physics may ultimately help improve our understanding of how much ice in Greenland and Antarctica will melt as a result of warming oceans.