External influences on the Mertz Glacier Tongue (East Antarctica) in the decade leading up to its calving in 2010

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
• Main Authors: Massom, Robert A., Giles, A. Barry, Warner, Roland C., Fricker, Helen A., Legrésy, Benoit, Hyland, Glenn, Lescarmontier, Lydie, Young, Neal
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Mertz Glacier; Mertz Glacier Tongue; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/14317; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003223

The Mertz Glacier Tongue (MGT) in East Antarctica lost ~55% of its floating length in February 2010, when it calved large tabular iceberg C28 (78 × 35 km). We analyze the behavior of the MGT over the preceding 12 years using a variety of satellite data (synthetic aperture radar and Landsat imagery a...