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Oceanography: Antarctic Ice Shelves & Ocean Currents – Melting, Measuring & Monitoring With Dr Peter Sheehan From University of East Anglia
March 20 @ 12:45 - 13:30
The ice shelves that surround Antarctica are melting – but how does the ocean influence this melting? What are the global- and regional-scale currents that deliver heat to the underside of the ice? What does the ocean look like beneath an ice shelf? And what ocean properties do we measure in order to learn about and monitor these processes?
In this session on oceanography, Peter Sheehan, from the University of East Anglia, traces the path of warming water in our oceans, from the vast currents that encircle Antarctica to the microscale ice-ocean interactions that occur beneath the continent’s ice shelves, as well as exploring some of the cutting-edge equipment we use to obtain measurements in the hardest-to-reach locations on Earth.
Lecturer Profile: Dr Peter Sheehan
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