Significant submarine ice loss from the Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Author: Rippin, David M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Getz; Getz Ice Shelf; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-163; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2018-163/

We present the first direct measurements of changes taking place at the base of the Getz Ice Shelf (GzIS) in West Antarctica. Our analysis is based on repeated airborne radio-echo sounding (RES) survey lines gathered in 2010 and 2014. We reveal that while there is significant variability in ice shel...