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Type
WORKSHOP REPORT
Oppdragsgiver/Client
Forum for Research into Ice Shelf
Processes (FRISP)
Routine
Ref. Nr.
R22
Prosjekt/Project Nr.
108320
Controlled by:
ISSN
1503-8734
Coordinator: Adrian Jenkins
(Chairman)
Project periode:
5-7. October 2004
Approved by:
Date:
Date
Title
Editor
Citation
Nr. pages
Dato/Date: 31. May 2005
Availability
65 pp
Open
FRISP Report No 16 (2005)
Lars H. Smedsrud
FRISP Report No 16 (2005) Edited by Lars H. Smedsrud,
Report series from the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Nr. R22
Summary
This report contains 8 contributions from the the 18th International FRISP Workshop
hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute on Germany's only open ocean island Helgoland.
The workshop was held on 5th - 7th of October 2004, and in total 20 participants from New
Zealand, China, Germany, Norway, the United States, and the United Kingdom came
together.
FRISP continues its circumpolar broader focus, and the Ross, Amery, Fimbul, Brunt,
Filchner-Ronne, Larsen and George VI isceshelves were adressed, as well as floating ice
bergs. Field campains covered a range from Paleo studies using sediment cores, via current
meter morings at the ice front, to ice cores taken through the ice shelves. Numerical
modelling studies presented covered ice shelf flow, ice berg drift, frazil ice formation, ice
shelf melting and fresh water input to the Southern Ocean. The last talk was as an "Autosub
under ice" report from the recent cruise to cruise to Kangerdlugssuaq, East Greenland,
showing good progress in water sampling teqniques for the autosub. So FRISP had an
Arctic presentations this year as well, but it is now likely that the first horizontal
measurements below an ice shelf will be taken in Antarctica.
Keywords
Antarctica, Ice Shelf, Ice Bergs, Frazil crystals, Weddell Sea.