Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1399-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1399-2022
Brief communication
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21 Apr 2022
Brief communication |  | 21 Apr 2022

Brief communication: Estimating the ice thickness of the Müller Ice Cap to support selection of a drill site

Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck and Aslak Grinsted

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on tc-2021-300', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Oct 2021
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck, 10 Dec 2021
  • RC2: 'Comment on tc-2021-300', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Oct 2021
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck, 10 Dec 2021

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (21 Dec 2021) by Harry Zekollari
AR by Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck on behalf of the Authors (27 Jan 2022)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Feb 2022) by Harry Zekollari
RR by Ward van Pelt (25 Feb 2022)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Mar 2022) by Harry Zekollari
AR by Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck on behalf of the Authors (03 Mar 2022)  Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
EF by Polina Shvedko (04 Mar 2022)  Author's response 
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (25 Mar 2022) by Harry Zekollari
AR by Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck on behalf of the Authors (01 Apr 2022)  Author's response   Manuscript 
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Short summary
The Müller Ice Cap will soon set the scene for a new drilling project. To obtain an ice core with stratified layers and a good time resolution, thickness estimates are necessary for the planning. Here we present a new and fast method of estimating ice thicknesses from sparse data and compare it to an existing ice flow model. We find that the new semi-empirical method is insensitive to mass balance, is computationally fast, and provides good fits when compared to radar measurements.