Horizontal strain rate distribution on an active ice shelf rift from in-situ GPS data

• Main Author: Janssen, V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: GPS; strain; rift propagation; cumulative sum; Amery Ice Shelf; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Amery; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/9452/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/9452/1/Janssen_JoGPS_2009_journal_version.pdf; http://www.cpgps.org/journal.php

Mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet predominantly occurs at the fringing ice shelves via iceberg calving, which is controlled by the initiation and propagation of large rifts that precede iceberg detachment and can lead to ice shelf break-up. This paper reports on the analysis of Global Positioni...