Quantifying ice-shelf basal melt and ice-stream dynamics using high-resolution DEM and GPS time series

• Main Author: Shean, David
• Other Authors: Joughin, Ian R
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: glaciology; ice sheet; photogrammetry; stereo; Remote sensing; Geophysics; Geographic information science and geodesy; earth and space sciences; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/36365

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06 This dissertation describes methods to generate high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) of the Earth's ice sheets, and combines these observations with in situ GPS measurements to study basal melting beneath the Pine Island Glacier ice s...