Annals of Glaciology 51(55) 2010 49 Deformation and failure of the ice bridge on the Wilkins Ice Shelf

• Main Authors: A. Humbert, D. Gross, M. Braun, M. R. Van, Den Broeke, D. G. Vaughan, W. J. Van De Berg
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Charcot; Charcot Island; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.725.2794; http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/%7Ebroek112/home.php_files/Publications_MvdB/2010_Humbert_AnnGlac.pdf

Antarctica, to two confining islands eventually collapsed in early April 2009. In the month preceding the collapse, we observed deformation of the ice bridge by means of satellite imagery and from an in situ GPS station. TerraSAR-X images (acquired in stripmap mode) were used to compile a time serie...