Subglacial bathymetry and sediment distribution beneath Pine Island Glacier ice shelf modeled using aerogravity and in situ geophysical data

• Main Authors: Muto, Atsuhiro, Peters, Leo E., Gohl, Karsten, Sassgen, Ingo, Alley, Richard B., Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Riverman, Kiya L.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island; Pine Island Bay; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37937/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45500

The Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica Ice Sheet is losing mass at a rate that has more than doubled in the past four decades, and continues to increase. Pine Island Glacier (PIG), the second largest drainage basins in this sector, experienced the fastest grounding-line retreat and its ice-mass...