Evaluation of six geothermal heat flux maps for the Antarctic Lambert-Amery glacial system

• Main Authors: Kang, Haoran, Zhao, Liyun, Wolovick, Michael, Moore, John C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-357; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-357/

Basal thermal conditions play an important role in ice sheet dynamics, and they are sensitive to geothermal heat flux (GHF). Here we estimate the basal thermal conditions, including basal temperature, basal melt rate, and friction heat underneath the Lambert-Amery glacier system in east Antarctica,...