A revised evaluation of Antarctic subglacial conditions and the contribution of basal melt to present day sea-level rise.
Antarctic subglacial conditions can be elucidated through several techniques. However, since direct measurements are only limited to a few deep drillings to the bed, there is always a substantial amount of ice sheet and thermodynamical modeling involved. This can either be done based on a fully coup...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/151306 https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/151306/1/GB2012.pdf |
| Summary: | Antarctic subglacial conditions can be elucidated through several techniques. However, since direct measurements are only limited to a few deep drillings to the bed, there is always a substantial amount of ice sheet and thermodynamical modeling involved. This can either be done based on a fully coupled thermomechanical ice sheet model, or a thermodynamical model coupled to present-day ice sheet geometry and environmental conditions. The latter technique was recently employed by Pattyn (2010) in an attempt to determine the likelihood of basal temperate conditions of the Antarctic ice sheet using a series of existing datasets on mass balance and geothermal heat flux. Here, we made an update of this estimate using new data on bedrock elevation and ice thickness (ALBMAP; Le Brocq et Al. 2010) and observed surface velocities obtained from interferometric analysis (Rignot et Al. 2011). The latter were further constrained by a hybrid ice sheet/ice shelf model to correct for the interior ice flow (where error of observations are to high) and for correcting the ice flow across subglacial lakes. We coupled the model with a new lake inventory from Wright et Al. (in review) to improve the contribution of the geothermal heat flux to the temperature. This revised calculation of the temperature allows us to improve our knowledge of basal melting and its contribution to present-day sea-level rise.Le Brocq, A. Payne, A. Vieli, A. 2010, An improved Antarctic dataset for high resolution numerical ice sheet models (ALBMAP V1), Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. 3, 195-230.Pattyn, F. 2010, Antarctic subglacial conditions inferred from a hybrid ice sheet/ice stream model, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 295, 451-461.Rignot, E. Mouginot, J. Scheuchl, B. 2011, Ice Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Science 333, 1427-1429.Wright, A. and Siegert, M. (in review), A fourth inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes. info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished |
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