The Melting of Free-Drifting Icebergs

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Blocks of ice with the proportions of tabular icebergs have been observed melting in water of different temperatures and salinities. The sub-surface shape adopted by the blocks melting in water of the same salinity as sea-water was typically a ‘bath-tub’ one. The basal and mean-side melt rates were of a similar value. The melt rates obtained in the laboratory for icebergs in water of a low temperature match those inferred from population studies of Antarctic icebergs. The melt rate is proportional to the water temperature above the onset of freezing raised to the power 1.5 and melt rates at 18°C are likely to be greater than one metre per day.

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Russell-Head, D. S. (1980). The Melting of Free-Drifting Icebergs. Annals of Glaciology, 1, 119–122. https://doi.org/10.3189/s0260305500017092

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