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Fricker et al. 2001
Fricker, H.A., Popov, S., Allison, I. and Young, N. (2001). Distribution of marine ice beneath the Amery Ice Shelf. Geophysical Research Letters 28: doi: 10.1029/2000GL012461. issn: 0094-8276.

We present a map of the marine ice accreted to the base of the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS), East Antarctica. This map is obtained by converting a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the AIS generated from satellite radar altimeter data to an ice thickness map, assuming hydrostatic equilibrium, and subtracting from that a second ice thickness map, derived from airborne radio-echo sounding (RES) measurements. The RES signal does not penetrate the marine ice, so the measurement is only to the meteoric-marine ice boundary, and therefore the difference between the two maps is the marine ice thickness. The marine ice is up to 190 m thick and accounts for about 9% of the shelf volume. It is concentrated in the northwest of the shelf, a result of the clockwise ocean circulation in the cavity below. ¿ 2001 American Geophysical Union

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Global Change, Remote sensing, Oceanography, General, Arctic and Antarctic oceanography
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