Inland thinning of the Amundsen Sea sector, West Antarctica

[1] Together with the Pine Island glacier (PIG), the Thwaites (TG) and Smith (SG) glaciers are the principal drainage systems of the Amundsen Sea (AS) sector of Western Antarctica. Here we use satellite radar altimetry and interferometry to show that a rapid thinning of ice has occurred within the f...

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Main Authors: Shepherd, A, Wingham, DJ, Mansley, JAD
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2002
Subjects:
Ice-sheet
Radar interferometry
Stream
Glacier
Motion
West Antarctica
Amundsen Sea
Pine Island Glacier
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
Pine Island
Online Access:https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/99623/1/2001GL014183.pdf
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/99623/

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