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SUMMARY:Turbulence Beneath the Larsen C Ice Shelf - Peter Davis\, British 
 Antarctic Survey
DTSTART:20180321T110000Z
DTEND:20180321T120000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Emma Boland
DESCRIPTION:*If external to BAS\, please email the organiser in advance to
  gain access to the building*\n\nIce shelves\, the floating extension of t
 he Antarctic ice sheet\, restrain the flow of grounded ice  into the ocean
 \, and are thus an important control on Antarctica’s contribution to glo
 bal sea level rise. Ice shelves interact with the ocean beneath them\, and
  the transfer of heat through the ice-ocean boundary layer is critical in 
 setting the basal melt rate and the sub-ice shelf circulation. As the phys
 ics of the boundary layer are poorly understood\, it is inadequately repre
 sented in numerical models and this is hampering our ability to predict th
 e future evolution of the ice shelves and understand Antarctica’s contri
 bution to future sea-level rise. Here I will discuss new observations of t
 he ice-ocean boundary layer beneath the southern Larsen C Ice Shelf using 
 a unique dataset from a turbulence instrument cluster deployed through a h
 ot-water drilled access hole in December 2011.
LOCATION:British Antarctic Survey\, Seminar Room 330b
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