Detecting high spatial variability of ice-shelf basal mass balance

• Main Authors: Berger, Sophie, Drews, Reinhard, Helm, Veit, Neckel, Niklas, Sun, Sainan, Pattyn, Frank, Eisen, Olaf
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49618/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49618/1/EGU2018-2072-1.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8d47965b-495c-4400-8c71-4ef6174c040d

Ice shelves control the dynamic mass loss of ice sheets through buttressing and their integrity depends on the spatial variability of their basal mass balance (BMB), i.e. the difference between refreezing and melting. Here, we present an improved technique – based on satellite observations – to capt...