Project information
Project aim
Ice streams and ice shelves are components of the Antarctic continental ice cover that are likely to respond earliest to changes in the environment. This project investigates a selection of ice stream – ice shelf systems in East Antarctica, to detect and assess change in their flow regimes and influence on the mass budget of drainage basins in that sector. Measurements are made using satellite remote sensing of ice velocity and strain rates, surface topography, ice thickness, and under the floating sections, basal melt/freeze rates, providing observations from a broad area, and complementing direct observations from field surveys.
Related publications
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Wilkins Ice Shelf on verge of collapse Australian Antarctic Magazine, 2009
(Ref: 13881)
Category 4: Popular articles
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CRACICE-MERTZ: Insights into the rifting and calving process of an ice tongue J14-Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Boundary Layers and Interactions; MOCA-09; Montreal, Canada, 19-29 July 2009, 2009
(Ref: 13880)
Category 3: Abstract
The CRAC-ICE project aims at monitoring the calving of the Mertz Glacier tongue in East … Antarctica, an ice tongue which extends 140km from its grounding line. Legresy et al. (2004)…
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ICECAP: Long range airborne geophysics over the Wilkes and Aurora subglacial basins SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 8-11 2008. Abstract Volume, 2008
(Ref: 13647)
Authors:Category 3: Abstract
We discuss an upcoming international airborne survey targeting two of the East Antarctica Ice Sheet's (EAIS) enigmatic … subglacial basins. Using a multi-instrumented long range aircraft we will address key issues in the origin and fate of … Earth's largest ice sheet.
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A 4-decade record of elevation change of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica Journal of Geophysical Research, 2009
(Ref: 13732)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
We report on long-term surface elevation changes of the central Amery Ice Shelf … (AIS) by comparing elevation records spanning 4 decades (1968–2007). We use elevation … records acquired with the following methods: optical leveling (1968–1969); ERS … radar altimetry (1992–2003); GPS (1995–2006)…