期刊
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
卷 114, 期 2, 页码 385-391出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.09.009
关键词
Antarctica; Ocean circulation; Bathymetry; Sea ice; Envisat ASAR; Larsen C Ice Shelf
资金
- UK Natural Environment Research Council [NE/E012914/1]
- NASA [NNG05GR58G]
- National Science Foundation [OPP-0338101]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/E012914/1, NE/E013414/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/E013414/1, NE/E012914/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We use the time-average of a series of satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from 2005 to 2007 to identify grounded icebergs in the western Weddell Sea. Satellite laser altimetry along repeated ground tracks confirms that regions of high mean backscatter are associated with stationary, tabular icebergs. The altimeter data also provide iceberg freeboard, from which we infer maximum ice draft assuming the lightly-grounded limit and a two-layer density model consistent with a source at Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. The maximum iceberg draft agrees very well with the ocean depth at a point where the bathymetry is well constrained by ship soundings. However, for an extensive region near 71 degrees S, south of Larsen C Ice Shelf, the maximum grounding depth for several icebergs reveals the ocean to be locally more than 200 m shallower than in bathymetry products. This previously uncharted bank is expected to have a profound effect on the northward flow of the western Weddell Gyre and the cross-slope transport of offshore warm deep water towards the eastern Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves. Passive microwave data also show that sea-ice concentration is reduced in the vicinity of this group of grounded icebergs, indicating an iceberg influence on ocean/atmosphere heat and freshwater exchanges. Crown Copyright (C)2009 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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