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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 43, Issue 16, Pages 8572-8579Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069287
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Grounding Line; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Sentinel-1
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cryospheric Science Program
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration's MEaSUREs program
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We employ Sentinel-1a C band satellite radar interferometry data in Terrain Observation with Progressive Scans mode to map the grounding line and ice velocity of Pope, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, in West Antarctica, for the years 2014-2016 and compare the results with those obtained using Earth Remote Sensing Satellites (ERS-1/2) in 1992, 1996, and 2011. We observe an ongoing, rapid grounding line retreat of Smith at 2km/yr (40km since 1996), an 11km retreat of Pope (0.5km/yr), and a 2km readvance of Kohler since 2011. The variability in glacier retreat is consistent with the distribution of basal slopes, i.e., fast along retrograde beds and slow along prograde beds. We find that several pinning points holding Dotson and Crosson ice shelves disappeared since 1996 due to ice shelf thinning, which signal the ongoing weakening of these ice shelves. Overall, the results indicate that ice shelf and glacier retreat in this sector remain unabated.
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