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Data initiatives for ocean-driven melt of Antarctic ice shelves
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-21, 17:00 authored by Susan CookSusan Cook, Nicholls, KW, Vankova, I, Sarah ThompsonSarah Thompson, Benjamin Galton-FenziBenjamin Galton-FenziOcean-driven melt of Antarctic ice shelves is an important control on mass loss from the ice sheet, but is complex to study due to significant variability in melt rates both spatially and temporally. Here we assess the strengths and weakness of satellite and field-based observations as tools for testing models of ice-shelf melt. We discuss how the complementary use of field, satellite and model data can be a powerful but underutilised tool for studying melt processes. Finally, we identify some community initiatives working to collate and publish coordinated melt rate datasets, which can be used in future for validating satellite-derived maps of melt and evaluating processes in numerical simulations.
History
Publication title
Annals of GlaciologyPagination
1-6ISSN
1727-5644Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Int Glaciol SocPlace of publication
Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, England, Cb2 1ErRights statement
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The International Glaciological Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.Repository Status
- Open