Author(s): Stephen Bruneau; Eugene Manning; Kris Rogers
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Abstract: One of the primary mechanisms of iceberg deterioration is calving. Calving in this context is an event in which a piece or pieces of ice abruptly break free of a parent iceberg. These events occur regularly though the interval and quantities calved are observed to vary considerably depending upon ambient environmental conditions. Scarcity of field data supporting analytical modeling of this phenomenon has led to an ongoing program of iceberg observation. This paper describes the program methodology and the results of the most recent dataset collected from St. John’s Newfoundland in June 2007.
Year: 2008