Characterizing the subglacial hydrology of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica using airborne radar sounding

• Main Author: Schroeder, Dustin Matthew
• Other Authors: Blankenship, Donald D., Raney, R. Keith, Anderson, John B, Ghattas, Omar, Hesse, Marc A, Mohrig, David
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Thwaites Glacier; Antarctica; Airborne radar sounding; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Subglacial; Hydrology; Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/32606; https://doi.org/10.15781/T2T63Q

text Hydrologic, lithologic, and geothermal basal boundary conditions can exert strong, even dominating, control on the evolution, stability, and sea level contribution of ice sheets and glaciers. However, the scales at which the physical processes and observable signatures of this control occur are...