Sea Bed Curtains

Sea curtains stem conceptually from work originally proposed for the Thames Barrier in London, whereby a fabric curtain is placed in the water with the bottom tethered to the ocean floor and with floats attached to the top of the curtain. As the floats are inflated, the curtain rises and creates a barrier to the basal current, thereby reducing the rate of ingress of warm saline water towards the glacier. This may be critical to tackling the accelerated erosion of glaciers due to ingress of warm saline water.