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Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5309-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5309-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
Research article
 | 
01 Dec 2021
Research article |  | 01 Dec 2021

The potential of synthetic aperture radar interferometry for assessing meltwater lake dynamics on Antarctic ice shelves

Weiran Li, Stef Lhermitte, and Paco López-Dekker

Data sets

TanDEM-X elevation model of Roi Baudoin ice shelf, link to GeoTIFF, supplement to: Lenaerts, JTM et al. (2016): Meltwater produced by wind-albedo interaction stored in an East Antarctic ice shelf. Nature Climate Change J. T. M. Lenaerts, S. Lhermitte, R. Drews, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, S. Berger, V. Helm, P. Smeets, M. R. Van Den Broeke, W. J. Van De Berg, E. Van Meijgaard, M. Eijkelboom, O. Eisen, and F. Pattyn https://doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.868109

Model code and software

Delft Object-oriented Radar Interferometric Software (Version 5.0) TU Delft Radar Group http://doris.tudelft.nl

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Short summary
Surface meltwater lakes have been observed on several Antarctic ice shelves in field studies and optical images. Meltwater lakes can drain and refreeze, increasing the fragility of the ice shelves. The combination of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter and interferometric information (InSAR) can provide the cryosphere community with the possibility to continuously assess the dynamics of the meltwater lakes, potentially helping to facilitate the study of ice shelves in a changing climate.
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