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Turbulent heat transfer as a control of platelet ice growth in supercooled under-ice ocean boundary layers
Miles G. McPhee
McPhee Research Company, Naches, Washington, USA
Craig L. Stevens
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Greta
Point, Wellington, New Zealand
Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Inga J. Smith
Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Natalie J. Robinson
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Greta
Point, Wellington, New Zealand
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- How Does the Ocean Melt Antarctic Ice Shelves? M. Rosevear et al. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-040323-074354
- The Effect of Pseudofrazil Particle Entrainment on Salinity Measurements M. Richter et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002564
- Platelet ice, the Southern Ocean's hidden ice: a review M. Hoppmann et al. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.54
- The role of the heat exchange coefficient at the ice/ocean interface in Bohai Sea ice modeling B. Jia et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104735
- Sub‐Ice Platelet Layer Physics: Insights From a Mushy‐Layer Sea Ice Model P. Wongpan et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015918
- Thermohaline equation of state for pure water, seawater and brine R. Baddour https://doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2023.2180444
- Stratified suppression of turbulence in an ice shelf basal melt parameterisation C. Yung et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5827-2025
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Short summary
Measurements of turbulent heat fluxes in tidally modulated flow of supercool seawater under Antarctic land-fast sea ice show that turbulent heat exchange at the ocean–ice boundary is characterized by the product of friction velocity and (negative) water temperature departure from freezing. Also, the conditions cause platelet ice growth to form on the underside of the sea ice which increases the hydraulic roughness (drag) of fast ice compared to ice without platelets.
Measurements of turbulent heat fluxes in tidally modulated flow of supercool seawater under...