Antarctic ice shelf thickness change from multimission lidar mapping

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: T. C. Sutterley, T. Markus, T. A. Neumann, M. van den Broeke, J. M. van Wessem, S. R. M. Ligtenberg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1801-2019; https://doaj.org/article/5aae4165a7004addaf4ad36e65bfd575

We calculate rates of ice thickness change and bottom melt for ice shelves in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula from a combination of elevation measurements from NASA–CECS Antarctic ice mapping campaigns and NASA Operation IceBridge corrected for oceanic processes from measurements and mod...