Vertical Fine Structure Beneath the Ice of the Western Antarctic Peninsula Shelf in Austral Winter 2001

Vertical Structure – Vertical Fluxes

•Scale Separation from horizontal processes.

•Flux estimates have been made based on budgets.

•Analysis of the vertical structure may help us understand and better quantify the mechanisms of vertical heat and material fluxes.

•Heat melts ice. Krill like heat!

AASW

Warm Salty

Cold fresh