An Improved Bathymetry Compilation for the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, to Inform Ice-sheet and Ocean Models

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Graham, A. G. C., Nitsche, F. O., Larter, R. D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2011
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Bellingshausen Sea; West Antarctica; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1542; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-95-2011; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/msc_facpub/article/2569/viewcontent/tc_5_95_2011.pdf; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/msc_facpub/article/2569/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/tc_5_95_2011_supplement.zip

The southern Bellingshausen Sea (SBS) is a rapidly-changing part of West Antarctica, where oceanic and atmospheric warming has led to the recent basal melting and break-up of the Wilkins ice shelf, the dynamic thinning of fringing glaciers, and sea-ice reduction. Accurate sea-floor morphology is vit...