Investigating the surface hydrology of Antarctic ice shelves using remote sensing and machine learning

• Main Author: Dell, Rebecca
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 2021
• Subjects: Gaciology; Antarctic; Buttress; Roi Baudouin; Nivlisen; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/329896; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.77341

Surface meltwater is widespread across many of Antarctica’s ice shelves and can contribute towards ice-shelf instability and potential collapse via hydrofracture or militate against potential ice-shelf instabilities by forming drainage systems that export surface meltwater off the ice-shelf edge. It...