Antarctic firn compaction rates from repeat-track airborne radar data: I. Methods

• Main Authors: Medley, B., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., Joughin, I., van den Broeke, M. R., Gogineni, S., Nowicki, S.
• Other Authors: Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Marine and Atmospheric Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: accumulation; ground-penetrating radar; polar firn; Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/396980

While measurements of ice-sheet surface elevation change are increasingly used to assess mass change, the processes that control the elevation fluctuations not related to ice-flow dynamics (e.g. firn compaction and accumulation) remain difficult to measure. Here we use radar data from the Thwaites G...