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Brief communication: Estimating the ice thickness of the Müller Ice Cap to support selection of a drill site
Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Aslak Grinsted
Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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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.
The Müller Ice Cap will soon set the scene for a new drilling project. To obtain an ice core...