An improved bathymetry compilation for the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, to inform ice-sheet and ocean models

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. G. C. Graham, F. O. Nitsche, R. D. Larter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2011
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; West Antarctica; Bellingshausen Sea; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-95-2011; https://doaj.org/article/cfac7914e466419290aa26dabb54b4e3

The southern Bellingshausen Sea (SBS) is a rapidly-changing part of West Antarctica, where oceanic and atmospheric warming has led to the recent basal melting and break-up of the Wilkins ice shelf, the dynamic thinning of fringing glaciers, and sea-ice reduction. Accurate sea-floor morphology is vit...