A look beneath the ice shelves of western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica: subglacial topography linked to ice shelf stability

• Main Authors: Eisermann, Hannes, Eagles, Graeme, Ruppel, Antonia, Smith, Emma Clare, Jokat, Wilfried
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Atka; Buttress; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51884/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.475f9743-3b40-489f-8536-4081c3603041

Antarctica’s ice shelves play a key role in stabilizing their related ice sheets. The ice shelves of western Dronning Maud Land – including the Ekström, Atka, Jelbart, Fimbul and Vigrid ice shelves – currently buttress a catchment that comprises an ice volume equivalent to 0.95 meters of sea level....