Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1333-2013
© Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Brief communication
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02 Sep 2013
Brief communication |
| 02 Sep 2013
Brief Communication "The 2013 Erebus Glacier Tongue calving event"
Abstract. The Erebus Glacier Tongue, a small floating glacier in southern McMurdo Sound, is one of the best-studied ice tongues in Antarctica. Despite this, its calving on the 27 February 2013 (UTC) was around 10 yr earlier than previously predicted. The calving was likely a result of ocean currents and the absence of fast ice. The subsequent trajectory of the newly created iceberg supports previous descriptions of the surface ocean circulation in southern McMurdo Sound.
