Morphological evidence and direct estimates of rapid melting beneath Totten Glacier Ice Shelf, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Greenbaum, J, Schroeder, D, Grima, C, Habbal, F, Dow, C, Roberts, J, Gwyther, D, van Ommen, TD, Siegert, M, Blankenship, D
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Greenland; Pine Island Glacier; Totten Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/116899

Totten Glacier drains at least 3.5 meters of eustatic sea level potential from marine-based ice in the Aurora SubglacialBasin (ASB) in East Antarctica, more than the combined total of all glaciers in West Antarctica. TottenGlacier has been the most rapidly thinning glacier in East Antarctica since s...