Melting and refreezing beneath Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf (East Antarctica) inferred from radar, GPS, and ice core data

• Main Authors: Pattyn, Frank, Matsuoka, Kenichi, Callens, Denis, Conway, Howard, Depoorter, Mathieu, Docquier, David, Hubbard, Bryn, Samyn, Denis, Tison, Jean-Louis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Sciences exactes et naturelles; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Roi Baudouin; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/171780

Ice-penetrating radar profiles across the grounding line of a small ice-rise promontory located within the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf in the Dronning Maud Land sector of East Antarctica show downward dipping englacial radar-detected reflectors. Model results indicate that this reflector pattern is best...