Satellite altimetry detection of ice shelf-influenced fast ice

• Main Authors: Brett, Gemma M., Price, Daniel, Rack, Wolfgang, Langhorne, Patricia J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Sound; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-286; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-286/

The outflow of supercooled Ice Shelf Water from the conjoined Ross and McMurdo ice shelf cavity augments fast ice thickness and forms a thick sub-ice platelet layer in McMurdo Sound. Here, we investigate whether the CryoSat-2 satellite radar altimeter can detect the higher freeboard caused by the th...