Basal melt beneath Whillans Ice Stream and ice streams A and C

• Main Authors: Joughin, I., Teluezyk, S., Engelhardt, H.
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: glaciers ice sheets; Whillans; Whillans Ice Stream; Annals of Glaciology; Ice Stream A; Ice Stream C
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/37117

We have used a recently derived map of the velocity of Whillans Ice Stream and Ice Streams A and C to help estimate basal melt. Temperature was modeled with a simple vertical advection-diffusion equation, "tuned" to match temperature profiles. We find that most of the melt occurs beneath t...