Determining a wet base of the ice sheet in East Antarctica by means of radio echo sounding

• Main Author: Kasper, Doreen
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Universität Hamburg / Institut für Geophysik 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Coats Land; Filchner Ice Shelf; Jutulstraumen; Slessor; Slessor Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37172/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45195

Basal water presence features crucial significance in ice sheet dynamics and evolution. Lubrication reduces friction at the interface, thus facilitating basal sliding and the restrain of the ice sheet to glacial motion. In-situ observations of ice base conditions bear a scientific challenge, as the...