First airborne gravity results over the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica

• Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
• Main Authors: Diehl, Theresa M., Holt, John W., Blankenship, Donald D., Young, Duncan A., Jordan, Tom A., Ferraccioli, Fausto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2008
• Subjects: Glaciology; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11442/; http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/gc0804/2007GC001878/2007GC001878.pdf

Recent satellite observations of Thwaites Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, have shown that the glacier is changing rapidly. The causes of its dynamic behavior are uncertain but are of concern because this glacier has the most negative mass balance of all Antarctic glaciers. To...