Flow of the Amery Ice Shelf and its tributary glaciers

• Main Authors: Pittard, ML, Roberts, JL, Warner, RC, Galton-Fenzi, BK, Watson, CS, Coleman, R
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Curran Associates, Inc. 2013
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Mellor; Mellor Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://www.proceedings.com/17862.html; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/86477

The Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) is a major ice shelf that drains approximately16% of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Here weuse a sequence of visible spectrum Landsat7 satellite imagesto track persistent surface features over the southern portion ofthe AIS and its three major tributary glaciers. A spatially...