Adrian Jenkins studies interactions between the ocean and ice shelves. With Lars H. Smedsrud, he developed a model of frazil formation in buoyant ice-shelf-water plumes. As a plume rises into lower pressure, its freezing temperature changes, allowing supercooling and growth of suspended ice crystals.
Their model couples plume flow, heat, salt and crystal populations, linking microscopic freezing with marine-ice accumulation beneath an ice shelf.[ref]
Frazil ice formation in an ice shelf water plume by Lars H. Smedsrud and Adrian Jenkins. Abstract and Sections 1–2, coupled plume and crystal-growth model
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