Observing ice-shelf channels and basal melting from space

• Main Authors: Berger, S., Drews, R., Helm, Veit, Rack, W., Lenaerts, J., Ligtenberg, Stefan, Pattyn, F.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Roi Baudouin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41451/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48371

Ice-shelf channels (along-flow lineations in which ice is thinner) are ubiquitous in Antarctic ice shelves. Although these features are readily visible in satellite imagery, ice-thickness and ice-velocity variations in their surrounding are typically heavily undersampled. Ice-shelf channels focus ch...