Brief communication:Estimating the ice thickness of the Müller Ice Cap to support selection of a drill site
The Müller Ice Cap will soon set the scene for a new drilling project. Therefore, ice thickness estimates are necessary for planning, since thickness measurements of the ice cap are sparse. Here, three models are presented and compared: (i) a simple Semi-Empirical Ice Thickness Model (SEITMo) based...
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ftcopenhagenunip:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/68e11290-b4fe-4c9b-8875-aaf4001d6573 2024-06-09T07:46:41+00:00 Brief communication:Estimating the ice thickness of the Müller Ice Cap to support selection of a drill site Zinck, Ann Sofie Priergaard Grinsted, Aslak 2022 application/pdf https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/brief-communication(68e11290-b4fe-4c9b-8875-aaf4001d6573).html https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1399-2022 https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/342925377/tc_16_1399_2022.pdf eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Zinck , A S P & Grinsted , A 2022 , ' Brief communication : Estimating the ice thickness of the Müller Ice Cap to support selection of a drill site ' , Cryosphere , vol. 16 , no. 4 , pp. 1399-1407 . https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1399-2022 article 2022 ftcopenhagenunip https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1399-2022 2024-05-16T11:29:28Z The Müller Ice Cap will soon set the scene for a new drilling project. Therefore, ice thickness estimates are necessary for planning, since thickness measurements of the ice cap are sparse. Here, three models are presented and compared: (i) a simple Semi-Empirical Ice Thickness Model (SEITMo) based on an inversion of the shallow-ice approximation by the use of a single radar line in combination with the glacier outline, surface slope, and elevation; (ii) an iterative inverse method using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM), and (iii) a velocity-based inversion of the shallow-ice approximation. The velocity-based inversion underestimates the ice thickness at the ice cap top, making the model less useful to aid in drill site selection, whereas PISM and the SEITMo mostly agree about a good drill site candidate. However, the new SEITMo is insensitive to mass balance, computationally fast, and provides as good fits as PISM. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice cap Ice Sheet University of Copenhagen: Research Müller Ice Cap ENVELOPE(-91.501,-91.501,79.785,79.785) The Cryosphere 16 4 1399 1407 |
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The Müller Ice Cap will soon set the scene for a new drilling project. Therefore, ice thickness estimates are necessary for planning, since thickness measurements of the ice cap are sparse. Here, three models are presented and compared: (i) a simple Semi-Empirical Ice Thickness Model (SEITMo) based on an inversion of the shallow-ice approximation by the use of a single radar line in combination with the glacier outline, surface slope, and elevation; (ii) an iterative inverse method using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM), and (iii) a velocity-based inversion of the shallow-ice approximation. The velocity-based inversion underestimates the ice thickness at the ice cap top, making the model less useful to aid in drill site selection, whereas PISM and the SEITMo mostly agree about a good drill site candidate. However, the new SEITMo is insensitive to mass balance, computationally fast, and provides as good fits as PISM. |
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Zinck , A S P & Grinsted , A 2022 , ' Brief communication : Estimating the ice thickness of the Müller Ice Cap to support selection of a drill site ' , Cryosphere , vol. 16 , no. 4 , pp. 1399-1407 . https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1399-2022 |
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