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JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY
卷 56, 期 197, 页码 545-554出版社
INT GLACIOL SOC
DOI: 10.3189/002214310792447842
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- US National Science Foundation (NSF) [OPP-0538120]
- British Antarctic Survey
- Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), University of Kansas
We use ice-penetrating radar data across grounding lines of Sip le Dome and Roosevelt Island, Antarctica, to measure the spatial pattern, magnitude and duration of sub-ice-shelf melting at these locations. Stratigraphic layers across the grounding line show, in places, a large-amplitude downwarp at, or slightly downstream of, the grounding line due to sub-ice-shelf basal melting. Localized downwarping indicates that melting is transient; melt rates, or the grounding line position, have changed within a few hundred years in order to produce the observed stratigraphy. Elsewhere, no melt-related stratigraphic signature is preserved. In part, heterogeneity in the amount of sub-ice-shelf melt is due to regional circulation patterns in the sub-shelf cavity, but local (on the order of tens of kilometers) heterogeneity in the melt pattern may reflect small differences in the shape of the ice-shelf base at the grounding line. We find that all of the grounding lines crossed have been in place for at most similar to 400 years.
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