TC The Cryosphere TC The Cryosphere 1994-0424 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/tc-7-1333-2013 <i>Brief Communication</i> "The 2013 Erebus Glacier Tongue calving event" Stevens C. L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4730-6985 1 2 Sirguey P. 3 Leonard G. H. 3 Haskell T. G. 4 National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Greta Point Wellington, New Zealand University of Auckland, Dept. Physics, New Zealand National School of Surveying, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Callaghan Innovation, Gracefield Lower Hutt, New Zealand 02 09 2013 7 5 1333 1337 Copyright: © 2013 C. L. Stevens et al. 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/7/1333/2013/tc-7-1333-2013.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/7/1333/2013/tc-7-1333-2013.pdf

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.

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