A High-Resolution Antarctic Grounding Zone Product from ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry

• Main Authors: Li, Tian, Dawson, Geoffrey, Chuter, Stephen, Bamber, Jonathan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Crary Ice Rise; Ronne Ice Shelf; Ross Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-255; https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-255/

The Antarctic grounding zone, which is the transition between the fully grounded ice sheet to freely floating ice shelf, plays a critical role in ice sheet instability, mass budget calculations and ice sheet model projections. It is therefore important to continuously monitor its location and migrat...