Ice shelf basal melt rates from a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) record for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Shean, David E., Joughin, Ian R., Dutrieux, Pierre, Smith, Benjamin E., Berthier, Etienne
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2633-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/2633/2019/

Ocean-induced basal melting is responsible for much of the Amundsen Sea Embayment ice loss in recent decades, but the total magnitude and spatiotemporal evolution of this melt is poorly constrained. To address this problem, we generated a record of high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) for...