Examining the interaction between multi-year landfast sea ice and the Mertz Glacier Tongue, East Antarctica: Another factor in ice sheet stability?

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Massom, Robert, Giles, A. Barry, Fricker, Helen A., Legresy, Benoit, Warner, Roland C., Hyland, Glenn, Young, Neal, Fraser, Alexander D.
• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE-CRC), Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales (LEGOS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: FILCHNER-RONNE ICE; MARINE ICE; GROUNDING LINES; SHELF COLLAPSE; MASS-BALANCE; ROSS SEA; ICEBERG; GREENLAND; OCEAN; ACCELERATION; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Greenland; Mertz Glacier; Mertz Glacier Tongue; Ninnis Glacier; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00561641; https://hal.science/hal-00561641/document; https://hal.science/hal-00561641/file/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%20Oceans%20-%202010%20-%20Massom%20-%20Examining%20the%20interaction%20between%20multi%25u2010year%20landfast%20sea%20ice%20and.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC006083

International audience The Mertz Glacier tongue (MGT), East Antarctica, has a large area of multi-year fast sea ice (MYFI) attached to its eastern edge. We use various satellite data sets to study the extent, age, and thickness of the MYFI and how it interacts with the MGT. We estimate its age to be...