scholarly journals Seabed corrugations beneath an Antarctic ice shelf revealed by autonomous underwater vehicle survey: Origin and implications for the history of Pine Island Glacier

2013 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 1356-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair G. C. Graham ◽  
Pierre Dutrieux ◽  
David G. Vaughan ◽  
Frank O. Nitsche ◽  
Richard Gyllencreutz ◽  
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Oceanography ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Jenkins ◽  
Pierre Dutrieux ◽  
Stan Jacobs ◽  
Steve McPhail ◽  
James Perrett ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-721
Author(s):  
Tamaki Ura ◽  

In 2020, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has already become a vital part of deep-sea research. There is a long history of R&D of AUVs that dive into the deep sea, where radio waves cannot reach, thus making remote control difficult so that no help can be provided, which implies that careful and adequate preparation is necessary. Their successful development has been based on the accumulation of experience and achievements contributing to the remarkable results that no other system can produce. The aggressive R&D of Japanese AUVs started approximately 40 years ago. This paper looks back at this history and introduces various Japanese AUVs.


2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Nicholls ◽  
E. P. Abrahamsen ◽  
J. J. H. Buck ◽  
P. A. Dodd ◽  
C. Goldblatt ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (64) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsuhiro Muto ◽  
Sidhar Anandakrishnan ◽  
Richard B. Alley

Abstract Pine Island Glacier (PIG), West Antarctica, has been experiencing acceleration in its flow speed and mass loss for nearly two decades, driven in part by an increase in the delivery of relatively warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW). However, at present, the configuration of the sub-ice-shelf cavity and bed conditions beneath the PIG ice shelf that dictate such oceanic influences remain poorly understood. Here, we use aerogravity data and ocean bottom depths measured by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to model the bathymetry and sediment layer thickness beneath the PIG ice shelf. Results reveal that the deep basins, previously found by AUV on both landward and seaward sides of a submarine ridge, extend substantially to the north and south. The water column thickness of the basins reaches 400-550 m on the landward side of the ridge and 500-600 m on the seaward side. The sediment layer covers the whole expanse of the seabed beneath the ice shelf, and the thickness is in the range ∼200-1000 m. The thinnest sediments (<200 m) are found on the seaward slope of the submarine ridge, suggesting that erosion by advancing ice may have been concentrated in the lee of the topographic high.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Marani ◽  
Junku Yuh ◽  
Song K. Choi ◽  
Son-Cheol Yu ◽  
Luca Gambella ◽  
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