Surface "Waves" on Byrd Glacier, Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Reusch, D., Hughes, Terence J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2003
• Subjects: East Antarctica; ice stream; outlet glacier; Ross embayment; unstable ice flow; Earth Sciences; Antarc*; Antarctica; Byrd Glacier; Ice Shelf; Ross Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ers_facpub/94; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102003001664; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/ers_facpub/article/1093/viewcontent/hughes_15_547_555.pdf

Byrd Glacier has one of the largest ice catchment areas in Antarctica, delivers more ice to the Ross Ice Shelf than any other ice stream, and is the fastest of these ice streams. A force balance, combined with a mass balance, demonstrates that stream flow in Byrd Glacier is transitional from sheet f...