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Ice shelf basal melt rates from a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) record for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA 98185, USA
Ian R. Joughin
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Pierre Dutrieux
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades,
NY 10964, USA
Benjamin E. Smith
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Etienne Berthier
LEGOS, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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Short summary
We produced an 8-year, high-resolution DEM record for Pine Island Glacier (PIG), a site of substantial Antarctic mass loss in recent decades. We developed methods to study the spatiotemporal evolution of ice shelf basal melting, which is responsible for ~ 60 % of PIG mass loss. We present shelf-wide basal melt rates and document relative melt rates for kilometer-scale basal channels and keels, offering new indirect observations of ice–ocean interaction beneath a vulnerable ice shelf.
We produced an 8-year, high-resolution DEM record for Pine Island Glacier (PIG), a site of...
