Project information
Project aim
The project involves the use of GPS and satellite imagery to measure the propagation (widening, elongation and height displacement) of rifts seen in the front of the Amery Ice Shelf. Understanding the mechanics of rifting provides the necessary knowledge to predict future calving of the ice shelf and whether the rate of calving is being influenced by global climate change.
Related publications
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Episodic propagation of a rift on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 2005
(Ref: 12648)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
We investigate ice shelf rift propagation using a … combination of GPS and seismic measurements near the … tip of an active rift in the Amery Ice Shelf. These … measurements reveal that propagation occurs in episodic … bursts…
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Comparison of GPS results from different processing of ambiguity parameters - A case study in the Amery Ice Shelf region, East Antarctica. International Journal of Geoinformatics., 2005
(Ref: 12596)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
This paper is an extension of the paper by King et al. (2000), where two techniques were described to … process GPS data collected on a floating Antarctic ice shelf. King et al. (2000)…
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Iceberg calving from the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology, 2002
(Ref: 12057)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Multi-year monitoring of rift propagation on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters., 2005
(Ref: 11800)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
We use satellite imagery from four sensors (Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR), Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM), and RADARSAT and ERS Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to monitor the lengths of two rifts on the Amery Ice Shelf, from 1996 to 2004.
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The loose tooth: rifting and calving of the Amery Ice Shelf. Australian Antarctic Magazine, 2003
(Ref: 11168)
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