Recent ice loss from the Fleming and other glaciers, Wordie Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Rignot, E., Casassa, G., Gogineni, S., Kanagaratnam, P., Krabill, W., Pritchard, H., Rivera, A., Thomas, R., Turner, J., Vaughan, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union. 2008
• Subjects: Ice shelves; Mass balance; Glaciology; Sea level change; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Fleming Glacier; Wordie; Wordie Bay; Wordie Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/40866

Satellite radar interferometry data from 1995 to 2004, and airborne ice thickness data from 2002, reveal that the glaciers flowing into former Wordie Ice Shelf, West Antarctic Peninsula, discharge 6.8 ± 0.3 km3/yr of ice, which is 84 ± 30 percent larger than a snow accumulation of 3.7 ± 0.8 km3/yr o...