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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2675-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2675-2017
Research article
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21 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 21 Nov 2017

Detecting high spatial variability of ice shelf basal mass balance, Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Sophie Berger, Reinhard Drews, Veit Helm, Sainan Sun, and Frank Pattyn

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Floating ice shelves act as a plug for the Antarctic ice sheet. The efficiency of this ice plug depends on how and how much the ocean melts the ice from below. This study relies on satellite imagery and a Lagrangian approach to map in detail the basal mass balance of an Antarctic ice shelf. Although the large-scale melting pattern of the ice shelf agrees with previous studies, our technique successfully detects local variability (< 1 km) in the basal melting of the ice shelf.