IPY: Coordinated Research into Antarctic Calving (CRAC) - Amery Ice Shelf component

Project aim

This proposal describes an exciting new initiative for Coordinated Research into Antarctic Calving (CRAC) on the Amery Ice Shelf during the International Polar Year (IPY) in 2007-09. CRAC's particular emphasis will be on studying the calving of tabular icebergs, a process which, for the Amery region, will lead to the calving of a 30 km by 30 km iceberg in the near future. The results of CRAC will contribute to our ability to model the critical role of the Antarctic ice sheet and its ice shelves in global processes, in particular how it might contribute to global sealevel rise.