Interactive movements of outlet glacier tongue and landfast sea ice in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica, detected by ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 imagery

• Published in: Science of Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Kazuki Nakamura, Shigeru Aoki, Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Takeshi Tamura
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Physical geography; GB3-5030; Science; Q; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Lützow-Holm Bay; Buttress; Shirase Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2022.100064; https://doaj.org/article/3860bb87fddf4eeeafd53e492c8d27d4

The Shirase Glacier, one of the fastest-flowing outlet glaciers in East Antarctica, flows into a bay that is usually covered by landfast sea ice. Although the presence of landfast ice is considered to stabilize glacier tongue, quantitative assessments are insufficient. We investigated the spatiotemp...