Surface velocity of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, from SAR interferometry, link to GeoTIFFs ...

• Main Authors: Berger, Sophie, Favier, Lionel, Drews, Reinhard, Derwael, Jean-Jacques, Pattyn, Frank
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: File content; File name; File format; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Satellite remote sensing; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.883284; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.883284

Antarctic ice shelves are buttressed by numerous pinning points attaching to the otherwise freely-floating ice from below. Some of these kilometric-scale grounded features are unresolved in Antarctic-wide datasets of ice thickness and bathymetry, hampering ice flow models to fully capture dynamics at the grounding line and upstream. We investigate the role of an 8.7 km² pinning point at the front of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, East Antarctica.Using ERS interferometry and ALOS-PALSAR speckle tracking, we derive, on a 125 m grid spacing, surface velocities deviating by -5.2 ± 4.5 m/a from 37 on-site global navigation satellite systems-derived velocities. We find no evidence for ice flow changes on decadal time scales and we show that ice on the pinning point virtually stagnates, deviating the ice stream and causing enhanced horizontal shearing upstream. Using the BISICLES ice-flow model, we invert for basal friction and ice rigidity with three input scenarios of ice velocity and geometry. We show that ... : Supplement to: Berger, Sophie; Favier, Lionel; Drews, Reinhard; Derwael, Jean-Jacques; Pattyn, Frank (2016): The control of an uncharted pinning point on the flow of an Antarctic ice shelf. Journal of Glaciology, 62(231), 37-45 ...