High basal melting forming a channel at the grounding line of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Marsh, Oliver J., Fricker, Helen A., Siegfried, Matthew R., Christianson, Knut, Nicholls, Keith W, Corr, Hugh F. J., Catania, Ginny
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Ross Ice Shelf; Mercer; Whillans; Whillans Ice Stream; Kamb Ice Stream; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513057/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513057/1/Marsh_et_al-2016-Geophysical_Research_Letters%20%281%29.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066612

Antarctica's ice shelves are thinning at an increasing rate, affecting their buttressing ability. Channels in the ice shelf base unevenly distribute melting, and their evolution provides insight into changing subglacial and oceanic conditions. Here we used phase-sensitive radar measurements to...