The regional scale surface mass balance of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica over the period 2005–2014, derived from airborne radar soundings and neutron probe measurements

• Main Authors: Kowalewski, Stefan, Helm, Veit, Morris, Elizabeth, Eisen, Olaf
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-102; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-102/

We derive recent surface mass balance (SMB) estimates from airborne radar observations along the iSTAR traverse (2013, 2014) at Pine Island Glacier (PIG), West Antarctica. Ground based neutron probe measurements of snow density at 22 locations allow us to derive SMB from the annual internal radar re...