User:Hgrobe/ice

Ice - images for lectures

• Licence: CC-by (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
• Citation: hannes.grobe@awi.de (2015)

Properties

• 
  Selective absorption of light in glacier ice
• 
  Iceberg off the Greenland coast with crevasse filled with frozen meltwater
• 
  Melting structures on the underside of an iceberg (capsized)

Ice sheet

• 
  Extension of the Antarctic ice sheet today and during a glacial stage
• 
  Generation of catabatic winds at the margin of an ice sheet
• 
  Occurence of blue ice in the Antarctic
• 
  Simplified profile through the West Antarctic ice sheet
• 
  Coverage of ice sheets on the northern hemisphere during glacial times

Shelf ice

• 
  Terminology of features and processes of a shelf ice
• 
  Shelf ice edge in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica
• 
  Aerial view of an Antarctic shelf ice
• 
  Remaining Larsen shelf ice C and D in 2016

Iceberg

• 
  One seventh part of an iceberg above the water, six seventh parts under water
• 
  Calving of tabular icebergs from Filchner Shelf Ice, Antarctica

Sea Ice

• 
  Terminology and measures at an ice floe
• 
  Minimum/Maximum coverage of Antarctic and Arctic sea ice

Ice rafting

• 
  Iceberg completely covered with morainic material
• 
  Ice rafted debris in a sediment core from the Southern Ocean (X-ray image)
• 
  Scetch of sedimentary processes at the Antarctic continental margin
• 
  Scetch of sedimentary processes during glacial times