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Icebergs as tracers of water movement in the Bransfield Strait

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2004

P. Madejski  and
S. Rakusa-Suszczewski
P. Madejski
Affiliation:
Geodesy and Cartography Enterprise, 70-508 Szczecin, ul. H. Poboznego 5, Poland.
S. Rakusa-Suszczewski
Affiliation:
Department of Polar Research, Institute of Ecology, Dziekanow Lesny, 05-092 Lomianki, Poland.
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Abstract

The direction and velocity of iceberg drift were measured during 1987 by photogrammetric methods. Drift along the southern coast of King George Island followed the NE and ENE directions of wind and water currents. The highest mean velocities (0.6–0.8 ms−1) were recorded in March and April, and the lowest velocities (0.1–0.2 ms−1) in winter, from May–July. From August–October velocities (0.4–0.6 ms−1) were higher than in November to December (0.4–0.5 ms−1). The waters flowing into Admiralty Bay came from the western part of the Bransfield Strait.

Keywords

Drifting icebergssatellite observations
Type
Papers—Earth Science and Glaciology
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 259 - 263
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1990

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