Measuring the location and width of the Antarctic grounding zone using CryoSat-2

• Main Authors: Dawson, Geoffrey J, Bamber, Jonathan L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Carlson Inlet; Doake Ice Rumples; Dronning Maud Land; Evans Ice Stream; Ronne Ice Shelf; Ross Ice Shelf; Support Force Glacier; The Antarctic; The Sentinel; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/805dbb75-c25c-4e1c-934b-8272b13e1e0b; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/805dbb75-c25c-4e1c-934b-8272b13e1e0b; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-196; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/242711548/tc_14_2071_2020.pdf

We present the results of mapping the limit of the tidal flexure (point F) and hydrostatic equilibrium (point H) of the grounding zone of Antarctic ice shelves from CryoSat-2 standard and swath elevation data. Overall we were able to map 31 % of the grounding zone of the Antarctic floating ice shelv...