Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Exploration of the Ocean Cavity Beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf

• Main Authors: Pierre Dutrieux, Adrian Jenkins, Stan Jacobs, Steve McPhail, James Perrett, Andy Webb, Dave White
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Oceanography Society 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic ice sheet; sea level rise; Pine Island Glacier; ice front; ice shelf; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/608dcb6c5b7e4db18328879cb4a8bf03

In recent years, mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet has contributed nearly 0.5 mm yr–1 to global mean sea level rise, about one-sixth of the current rate (Church et al., 2011). Around half of that contribution has come from accelerated draining of outlet glaciers into the southeast Amundsen Sea...