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Project aim
The ICECAP Project will conduct a major airborne survey in East Antarctica. The survey will employ multi-frequency ice penetrating radar, laser altimeter, magnetometers and a gravity meter to study a large and relatively unexplored part of the continent. The survey extends from Casey, inland across the Aurora Subglacial Basin, which holds some of the deepest and possibly oldest ice on the continent. This will improve understanding of the ice sheet itself, its past, and potential future impact on sea-level, and of the underlying geology. It will also guide the search for suitable icecore sites for recovering the oldest possible record.
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Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica Scientific Data, 2025
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Authors:Pritchard H.D.Fretwell P.T.Frémand A.C.Bodart J.A.Kirkham J.D.Aitken A.Bamber J.Bell R.Bianchi C.Bingham R.G.Blankenship D.D.Casassa G.Christianson K.Conway H.Corr H.F.J.Cui X.Damaske D.Damm V.Dorschel B.Drews R.Eagles G.Eisen O.Eisermann H.Fausto F.Field E.Forsberg R.Franke S.Goel V.Gogineni S.P.Greenbaum J.Hills B.Hindmarsh R.C.A.Hoffman A.O.Holschuh N.Holt J.W.Humbert A.Jacobel R.W.Jansen D.Jenkins A.Jokat W.Jong L.Jordan T.A.King E.C.Kohler J.Krabill W.Maton J.Gillespie M.K.Langley K.Lee J.Leitchenkov G.Leuschen C.Luyendyk B.MacGregor J.A.MacKie E.Moholdt G.Matsuoka K.Morlighem M.Mouginot J.Nitsche F.O.Nost O.A.Paden J.Pattyn F.Popov S.Rignot E.Rippin D.M.Rivera A.Roberts J.L.Ross N.Ruppel A.Schroder D.M.Siegert M.J.Smith A.M.Steinhage D.Studinger M.Sun B.Tobacco I.Tinto K.J.Urbini S.Vaughan D.G.Wilson D.S.Young D.A.Zirizzotti A.Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
We present Bedmap3, the latest suite of gridded products describing surface elevation, ice-thickness and the seafloor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60?°S. Bedmap3 incorporates and adds to all post-1950s datasets previously used for Bedmap2…
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A detailed radiostratigraphic data set for the central East Antarctic Plateau spanning from the Holocene to the mid-Pleistocene Earth Systems Science Data, 2021
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Totten Glacier subglacial hydrology determined from geophysics and modelling Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020
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Modelled fracture and calving on the Totten Ice Shelf The Cryosphere, 2018
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Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet Nature Geoscience, 2019
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Authors:Morlighem M.Rignot E.Binder T.Blankenship D.Drews R.Eagles G.Eisen O.Ferraccioli F.Forsberg R.Fretwell V.Goel V.Greenbaum J.Gudmundsson H.Guo J.Helm V.Hofstede C.Howat I.Humbert A.Jokat W.Karlsson N.Lee W.S.Matsuoka K.Millan R.Mouginot J.Paden J.Pattyn F.Roberts J.Rosier S.Ruppel A.Seroussi H.Smith E.Steinhage D.Sun D.van den Broeke M.van Ommen T.van Wessem M.Young D.Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature