External influences on the Mertz Glacier Tongue (East Antarctica) in the decade leading up to its calving in 2010
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...
Published in: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc
2015
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003223 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/100218 |