ICESat's new perspective on ice shelf rifts: The vertical dimension

被引:19
作者
Fricker, HA [1 ]
Bassis, JN
Minster, B
MacAyeal, DR
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[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, Inst Geophys & Planetary Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[2] Univ Chicago, Dept Geophys Sci, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
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10.1029/2005GL025070
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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摘要
The small footprint (similar to 70 m) and similar to 172 m along-track spacing of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) provides unprecedented horizontal resolution for a satellite altimeter. This enables ICESat to map many previously unresolved features on ice shelves, such as crevasses, rifts, grounding zones and ice fronts. We present examples of ICESat-derived elevation data showing topography over rifts on the Amery and Ross ice shelves, widths of rifts and as estimates of the thickness of melange (a collection of ice and snow trapped inside the rifts). We show that melange thickness remains constant over the ICESat data period and tends to be thicker in older rifts. We validate the ICESat-derived melange depth estimate with an in situ measurement on the Ross Ice Shelf.
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