Project information

YOUNG, Mr Neal
University of Tasmania
Amery Ice Shelf, Australia (or home country), Bunger Hills, Casey, Wilkes Land Coast, Davis, Mawson

Project aim

This project is a cooperative venture between Australian and Italian institutes in a study of the mass budget of a large sector of the East Antarctic ice sheet. The mass budget represents the difference between the net input of moisture from the ocean as snow accumulating on the surface and the discharge of ice from the grounded part of the ice sheet. Any mismatch between these input and out put terms produces a direct contribution to change in sea level. Measurements of ice thickness along the coastal margin of the grounded ice sheet, combined with velocity data derived from satellite remote sensing methods, will provide the first direct measurements of the total mass output for the part of the ice sheet draining through this sector of the coastline. The observations will also a baseline against which future change in the mass flux can be assessed.

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