Amery Ice Shelf
A history of spatial sciences on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
... and ice and is sensitive to variations in these components. Ice shelves represent the ice-ocean-atmosphere interface of the Antarctic continent and are therefore very important indicators of climate ...
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Modelling the response of the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica, to uncertain climate forcing over the 21st and 22nd centuries
... polar ice sheet regions is a key process in global environmental ...dynamic ice simula- tions of one of the largest drainage systems in East Antarc- tica: the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice ...
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The Water Masses and Circulation at the Amery Ice Shelf
... on ice shelf structure and bottom shape, ice shelf movement, oceanography under the ice ...of Amery Ice Shelf. With GPS data on the Amery Ice ...
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Applications of ERS satellite radar altimetry in the Lambert Glacier Amery Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica
... Figure 8.15 Variation along track in the SN model parameters a 0'8 , b K, c ke and d their corresponding X2 values for passes of the Phase D 3-day repeat track across the Amery Ice Shelf[r] ...
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Spatial Sciences on Ice: 50 years of Australian activities on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
... the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) and the glaciers that feed ...continental ice from an area of more than one million square kilometres (Allison 1991) through a section of coastline that represents ...
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A numerical study of ocean circulation and ice ocean interaction, beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica
... 2.3 where T and S are water temperature and salinity respectively, with the subscript b indicating conditions at the boundary, P is the pressure· at the base of the ice shelf, m is the m[r] ...
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The morphology and dynamics of the lower Lambert Glacier and Amery Ice Shelf system
... The lower part of this system consists of several ice streams that flow through the Southern Prince Charles Mountains, namely the Fisher, Geysen, Collins, Mellor, West Lambert, and the L[r] ...
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Longitudinal surface structures (flowstripes) on Antarctic glaciers
... Glacier/Amery Ice Shelf area, the Taylor and Ferrar Glaciers in the Ross Sea sector, Crane and Jorum Glaciers (ice-shelf tributary glaciers) on the Antarctic Peninsula, and the onset ...
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Future sea level change from Antarctica's Lambert Amery glacial system
... the ice shelf, the calving front is still north of the MISW and Clemence Massif (Figure ...the ice shelf (ice shelf left of vertical dashed line in Figure ...The ice ...
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Moving Ice and Satellites: The Motion of Crevasses in Antarctica
... The Amery Ice Shelf is a broad ice shelf in Antarctica (in [25], a map of the shelf is ...the Amery Ice ...
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The sedimentology of Holocene Prydz Bay : sedimentary patterns and processes
... The samples off the Amery Ice Shelf consist of medium grained, poorly to moderately well sorted, and coarse skewed sands which are probably iceberg rafted sediments, with the coarse skew[r] ...
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Horizontal strain rate distribution on an active ice shelf rift from in situ GPS data
... the Amery Ice Shelf about 240 km south of the Loose Tooth, the Antarctic summer of 2004/05 was comparatively warm in the region (Fig 10) with maximum daily temperatures reaching up to +8°C during the ...
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Ice-shelf – ocean interactions at Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica from oxygen isotope ratio measurements
... Under Ice programme, which in- cluded sending the autonomous submarine Autosub 25 km into the main Fimbul ...continental shelf in front of Fimbul Ice ...sea ice have only a small effect on the ...
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Modelling ice shelf/ocean interaction
... Unit vector normal to area Cap on number of crystals for secondary nucleation Al Total number of frazil size classes Nu Nusselt number Frazil precipitation rate Pressure Pb Pressure at i[r] ...
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Analysis of ice shelf flexure and its InSAR representation in the grounding zone of the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf
... An important and possibly flawed assumption in our anal- ysis is the elasticity of ice. This is normally quietly assumed in the DInSAR derivation of the flexural profiles, as only elastic materials will allow the ...
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Description and evaluation of the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM) v2.1
... total ice area and volume, total surface and basal mass balance, and maximum surface and basal ice speeds), along with vertical profiles of ice speed and temper- ature for a user-chosen grid ...
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Ice shelf fracture parameterization in an ice sheet model
... weaker ice shelf given the same flow law parameter (A), so that the grounding line ...the ice stream to ablation of the ice shelf was similar in both cases, with the damage model ...
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Evolution of ice-shelf channels in Antarctic ice shelves
... The ice-shelf integrity is influenced by fractures and rifts ...of ice mélange and marine ice with different rheological prop- erties than meteoric ice (Khazendar et ...the ...
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Ice-shelf buttressing and the stability of marine ice sheets
... Abstract. Ice-shelf buttressing and the stability of marine- type ice sheets are investigated ...that ice-shelf buttressing can restore stabil- ity under these ...conditions. Ice ...
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Past and future dynamics of the Brunt Ice Shelf from seabed bathymetry and ice shelf geometry
... of ice shelf flotation, based on freeboard and an assumed ice shelf density, to the final estimated bathymetry ...of ice shelf should not be ...
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