brine release – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Update on freezing ice cubes and the temperature distribution in our freezer

mglessmer — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:31:01 +0000

After writing the blog post on sea ice formation, brine release and what ice cubes can tell you about your freezer earlier today, I prepared some more ice cubes (because you can never have too many ice cubes for kitchen oceanography!), and then happened to look into the freezer a couple of hours later. And this […]

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Sea ice formation, brine release, or: What ice cubes can tell you about your freezer

mglessmer — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:32:48 +0000

Many of my kitchen oceanography experiments use dyed ice cubes, usually because it makes it easier to track the melt water (for example when looking at how quickly ice cubes melt in freshwater vs salt water, or for forcing overturning circulations). But the dyed ice cubes tell interesting stories all by themselves, too! Salt water […]

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