Basal melt of the southern Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Zeising, Ole, Steinhage, Daniel, Nicholls, Keith W., Corr, Hugh F.J., Stewart, Craig L., Humbert, Angelika
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copenicus 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Filchner Ice Shelf; Support Force Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532608/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532608/1/tc-16-1469-2022.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1469-2022

Basal melt of ice shelves is a key factor governing discharge of ice from the Antarctic Ice Sheet as a result of its effects on buttressing. Here, we use radio echo sounding to determine the spatial variability of the basal melt rate of the southern Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica, along the inflow o...