Ice shelf basal melt rates from a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) record for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: D. E. Shean, I. R. Joughin, P. Dutrieux, B. E. Smith, E. Berthier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: geo; envir; Amundsen Sea; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2633-2019; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/2633/2019/tc-13-2633-2019.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/b59929a29f52435ab3d2373eea3050fe

Ocean-induced basal melting is responsible for much of the Amundsen Sea Embayment ice loss in recent decades, but the total magnitude and spatiotemporal evolution of this melt is poorly constrained. To address this problem, we generated a record of high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) for...