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Research article
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08 Jul 2019
Research article |
| 08 Jul 2019
| 08 Jul 2019
Antarctic ice shelf thickness change from multimission lidar mapping
Tyler C. Sutterley
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Thorsten Markus
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Thomas A. Neumann
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Michiel van den Broeke
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
J. Melchior van Wessem
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Short summary
Most of the Antarctic ice sheet is fringed by ice shelves, floating extensions of ice that help to modulate the flow of the glaciers that float into them. We use airborne laser altimetry data to measure changes in ice thickness of ice shelves around West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula. Each of our target ice shelves is susceptible to short-term changes in ice thickness. The method developed here provides a framework for processing NASA ICESat-2 data over ice shelves.
Most of the Antarctic ice sheet is fringed by ice shelves, floating extensions of ice that help...
