Mapping Basal Melt Under the Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, From CryoSat-2 Radar Altimetry

Ice shelvesbuttress the fast-flowing glaciers draining ice sheets, so changes in the ice shelves may alter the buttressing effect and the discharge of grounded ice, therefore influencing sea level. Basal melting of the ice shelves would reduce their ability to restrain the discharge of grounded ice...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qi Liang, Chunxia Zhou, Lei Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9423551/