3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
What can Planetary Ice Shells Teach Us about Ocean Mixing and Life, and Why Salt Matters
Nicole Shibley
Past and present climates, both on Earth and in planetary systems, maintain ice covers with underlying oceans. This can range from sea ice in the Arctic Ocean to global ice shells…
astro-ph.EP2023
How to infer ocean freezing rates on icy satellites from measurements of ice thickness
Nicole C. Shibley, Ching-Yao Lai, Riley Culberg
Liquid-water oceans likely underlie the ice shells of Europa and Enceladus, but ocean properties are challenging to measure due to the overlying ice. Here, we consider gravity-driv…
astro-ph.EP2023
Europa's Coupled Ice-Ocean System: Temporal Evolution of a Pure Ice Shell
Nicole C. Shibley, Jeremy Goodman
Europa's icy surface likely overlies an ocean, but the ice thickness is not known. Here we model the temporal growth of a Europan shell of pure ice subject to varying ice-ocean hea…