Investigating Antarctic ice sheet subglacial processes beneath the Whillans Ice Plain, West Antarctica, using satellite altimetry and GPS

• Main Author: Siegfried, Matthew Ross
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2015
• Subjects: Geophysics; Antarctica; glaciology; grounding line; hydrology; ice sheet; subglacial lake; Antarctic; Mercer; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Whillans; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0hb629pc; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5f21w24

The Antarctic ice sheet has an extensive basal water system that lubricates the ice-bed interface and enables the fast flow of ice streams and outlet glaciers, which account for a majority of Antarctic ice discharge to the ocean. In the past decade, observational evidence has suggested that the subg...