External influences on the Mertz Glacier Tongue (East Antarctica) in the decade leading up to its calving in 2010

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
• Main Authors: Massom, RA, Giles, AB, Warner, RC, Fricker, HA, Legresy, B, Hyland, G, Lescarmontier, L, Young, N
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc 2015
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; East Antarctica; Mertz Glacier; Mertz Glacier Tongue; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003223; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/100218

The Mertz Glacier Tongue (MGT) in East Antarctica lost ~55% of its floating length in February 2010, when it calved large tabular iceberg C28 (78 35 km). We analyze the behavior of the MGT over the preceding 12 years using a variety of satellite data (synthetic aperture radar and Landsat imagery and...