Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf

Dell, Rebecca; Arnold, Neil; Willis, Ian; Banwell, Alison; Williamson, Andrew; Pritchard, Hamish; Orr, Andrew

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2313-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2313-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2313-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

Research article

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22 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 22 Jul 2020

Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf

Rebecca Dell, Neil Arnold, Ian Willis, Alison Banwell, Andrew Williamson, Hamish Pritchard, and Andrew Orr

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Reviewer response to 'Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf'', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Feb 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewers', Rebecca Dell, 23 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewers', Rebecca Dell, 23 Apr 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewers', Rebecca Dell, 23 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Dell et al. Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Mar 2020
- RC3: 'Additionl comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Mar 2020
  - AC3: 'Response to Reviewers', Rebecca Dell, 23 Apr 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewers', Rebecca Dell, 23 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewers', Rebecca Dell, 23 Apr 2020

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (04 May 2020) by Pippa Whitehouse

AR by Rebecca Dell on behalf of the Authors (04 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (28 May 2020) by Pippa Whitehouse

AR by Rebecca Dell on behalf of the Authors (01 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Jun 2020) by Pippa Whitehouse

AR by Rebecca Dell on behalf of the Authors (22 Jun 2020)

Short summary

A semi-automated method is developed from pre-existing work to track surface water bodies across Antarctic ice shelves over time, using data from Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8. This method is applied to the Nivlisen Ice Shelf for the 2016–2017 melt season. The results reveal two large linear meltwater systems, which hold 63 % of the peak total surface meltwater volume on 26 January 2017. These meltwater systems migrate towards the ice shelf front as the melt season progresses.