Grounding line, ice frontal position and coastal ice masks for the Marie Byrd Land Sector of West Antarctica, 2003-2015

• Main Authors: Christie, Frazer D W, Bingham, Robert G, Bisset, Rosie R
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; MarieByrdLand; MULT; Multiple investigations; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Ross Ice Shelf; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Thwaites Glacier; Getz; Getz Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.884782; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884782

Over the past 20 years satellite remote sensing has captured significant downwasting of glaciers that drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the ocean, particularly across the Amundsen Sea Sector. Along the neighbouring Marie Byrd Land Sector, situated west of Thwaites Glacier to Ross Ice Shelf, gl...