Uncertainty Assessment of Ice Discharge Using GPR-Derived Ice Thickness from Gourdon Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Stefan Lippl, Norbert Blindow, Johannes J. Fürst, Sebastián Marinsek, Thorsten C. Seehaus, Matthias H. Braun
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: James Ross Island; Antarctic Peninsula; ice thickness; ice discharge; Gourdon Glacier; Antarctic; Ross Island; Gourdon; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10010012

Ice cliffs within a glacier represent a challenge for the continuity equations used in many glacier models by interrupting the validity of input parameters. In the case of Gourdon Glacier on James Ross Island, Antarctica, a ∼300–500 m high, almost vertical cliff, separates the outlet glacier from it...