Antarctic firn compaction rates from repeat-track airborne radar data: I. Methods

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Medley, B., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., Joughin, Ian R., van den Broeke, Michiel R., Gogineni, Sivaprasad, Nowicki, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2016
• Subjects: Accumulation; Ground-Penetrating Radar; Polar Firn; Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22196; https://doi.org/10.3189/2015AoG70A203

While measurements of ice-sheet surface elevation change are increasingly used to assess mass change, the processes that control the elevation fluctuations not related to ice-flow dynamics (e.g. firn compaction and accumulation) remain difficult to measure. Here we use radar data from the Thwaites G...