Underwater tsunamis created by calving glaciers cause vigorous ocean mixing

Underwater tsunamis created by calving glaciers cause vigorous ocean mixing

Field size and retreat of glaciers due to calving. (A) Location of Börgen Bay in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Bathymetry of the global relief model ETOPO 1 (74). (B) Bathymetry of Börgen Bay from multibeam echosounder data and coastline/topography from Landsat imagery (see Materials and methods). Dots mark the locations of the conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiles …

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