Basal melting and freezing of the Ross Ice Shelf
Antarctica’s ice sheets don’t end at the coast, they extend onto the sea around the continent as ice shelves where they buttress the ice sheets from accelerating. These ice shelves are where most glaciological mass of the Antarctic continent is lost through calving and basal melting. But processes b...
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ftunivcanter:oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/18583 2023-05-15T13:59:52+02:00 Basal melting and freezing of the Ross Ice Shelf Snodgrass, Joe 2019 application/msword http://hdl.handle.net/10092/18583 English en eng http://hdl.handle.net/10092/18583 All Rights Reserved Reports 2019 ftunivcanter 2022-09-08T13:41:16Z Antarctica’s ice sheets don’t end at the coast, they extend onto the sea around the continent as ice shelves where they buttress the ice sheets from accelerating. These ice shelves are where most glaciological mass of the Antarctic continent is lost through calving and basal melting. But processes below the ice shelf are often poorly understood through lack of direct measurements. Automatic phase sensitive radar echo sounding (pRES) systems allow the internal ice shelf layers and sea interface to surveyed to mm precision allowing monitoring of the basal conditions and processes beneath the ice shelf. This report analyses third year pRES data from the eastern Ross Ice Shelf. Basal processes are consistent with precious measurements and can be related to basal topology and confirm other studies findings. Report Antarc* Antarctic Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Ross Ice Shelf University of Canterbury, Christchurch: UC Research Repository Antarctic Buttress ENVELOPE(-57.083,-57.083,-63.550,-63.550) Ross Ice Shelf The Antarctic |
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Antarctica’s ice sheets don’t end at the coast, they extend onto the sea around the continent as ice shelves where they buttress the ice sheets from accelerating. These ice shelves are where most glaciological mass of the Antarctic continent is lost through calving and basal melting. But processes below the ice shelf are often poorly understood through lack of direct measurements. Automatic phase sensitive radar echo sounding (pRES) systems allow the internal ice shelf layers and sea interface to surveyed to mm precision allowing monitoring of the basal conditions and processes beneath the ice shelf. This report analyses third year pRES data from the eastern Ross Ice Shelf. Basal processes are consistent with precious measurements and can be related to basal topology and confirm other studies findings. |
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