Autonomous underwater vehicle exploration of the ocean cavity beneath an Antarctic ice shelf

• Published in: Oceanography
• Main Authors: Jenkins, A., Dutrieux, P., Jacobs, S., McPhail, S., Perrett, J., Webb, A., White, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19386/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19386/1/25-3_jenkins.pdf; http://www.tos.org/oceanography/archive/25-3_jenkins.html

In recent years, mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet has contributed nearly 0.5 mm yr–1 to global mean sea level rise, about one-sixth of the current rate (Church et al., 2011). Around half of that contribution has come from accelerated draining of outlet glaciers into the southeast Amundsen Sea...