An improved bathymetry compilation for the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, to inform ice-sheet and ocean models

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Graham, Alastair G.C., Nitsche, F.O., Larter, Robert D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2011
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Glaciology; Bellingshausen Sea; West Antarctica; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14115/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14115/1/tc-5-95-2011.pdf; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/5/95/2011/tc-5-95-2011.html

The southern Bellingshausen Sea (SBS) is a rapidly-changing part of West Antarctica, where oceanic and atmospheric warming has led to the recent basal melting and break-up of the Wilkins ice shelf, the dynamic thinning of fringing glaciers, and sea-ice reduction. Accurate sea-floor morphology is vit...