Ross ice shelf icequakes associated with ocean gravity wave activity

dc.contributor.author Chen, Zhao
dc.contributor.author Bromirski, Peter D.
dc.contributor.author Gerstoft, Peter
dc.contributor.author Stephen, Ralph A.
dc.contributor.author Lee, Won Sang
dc.contributor.author Yun, Sukyoung
dc.contributor.author Olinger, Seth D.
dc.contributor.author Aster, Richard C.
dc.contributor.author Wiens, Douglas A.
dc.contributor.author Nyblade, Andrew A.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-20T21:08:09Z
dc.date.available 2020-02-01T09:39:18Z
dc.date.issued 2019-08-01
dc.description Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2019. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 46(15), (2019): 8893-8902, doi:10.1029/2019GL084123. en_US
dc.description.abstract Gravity waves impacting ice shelves illicit a suite of responses that can affect ice shelf integrity. Broadband seismometers deployed on the Ross Ice Shelf, complemented by a near‐icefront seafloor hydrophone, establish the association of strong icequake activity with ocean gravity wave amplitudes (AG) below 0.04 Hz. The Ross Ice Shelf‐front seismic vertical displacement amplitudes (ASV) are well correlated with AG, allowing estimating the frequency‐dependent transfer function from gravity wave amplitude to icefront vertical displacement amplitude (TGSV(f)). TGSV(f) is 0.6–0.7 at 0.001–0.01 Hz but decreases rapidly at higher frequencies. Seismicity of strong icequakes exhibits spatial and seasonal associations with different gravity wave frequency bands, with the strongest icequakes observed at the icefront primarily during the austral summer when sea ice is minimal and swell impacts are strongest. en_US
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dc.description.sponsorship Bromirski, Gerstoft, and Chen were supported by NSF grant PLR‐1246151. Bromirski also received support from NSF grant OPP‐1744856 and CAL‐DPR‐C1670002. Stephen, Wiens, Aster, and Nyblade were supported under NSF grants PLR‐1246416, 1142518, 1141916, and 1142126, respectively. Lee and Yun were support by a research grant from the Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (KIMST20190361; PM19020). Seismic instruments and on‐ice support were provided by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) through the PASSCAL Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech. The RIS and KPDR seismic data are archived at the IRIS Data Management Center, http://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/, with network codes XH and KP, respectively. The facilities of the IRIS Consortium are supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement EAR‐1261681 and the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration. We thank Patrick Shore, Michael Baker, Cai Chen, Robert Anthony, Reinhard Flick, Jerry Wanetick, Weisen Shen, Tsitsi Madziwa Nussinov, and Laura Stevens for their help with field operations. Logistical support from the U.S. Antarctica Program and staff at McMurdo Station was critical and is much appreciated. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Chen, Z., Bromirski, P. D., Gerstoft, P., Stephen, R. A., Lee, W. S., Yun, S., Olinger, S. D., Aster, R. C., Wiens, D. A., & Nyblade, A. A. (2019). Ross ice shelf icequakes associated with ocean gravity wave activity. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(15), 8893-8902. en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.1029/2019GL084123
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/1912/24863
dc.publisher American Geophysical Union en_US
dc.relation.uri https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084123
dc.subject Icequake en_US
dc.subject Ice shelf en_US
dc.subject Gravity wave en_US
dc.subject Transfer function en_US
dc.title Ross ice shelf icequakes associated with ocean gravity wave activity en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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