Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf

Mysterious 1,300-ft-long structures found under Antarctic ice shelf

... bases are but Ran uncovered a more extensive and complete picture than ever before. The imagery from the base of Dotson Ice shelf helps us ...

'New era' for Antarctic exploration as robot sub dives beneath ice shelf

The article Swirls and scoops: Ice-base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf, by Anna Wahlin et al, is published in the ...

Revolutionary Submarine Discovers Ice Shelf Mysteries, Then ...

... Antarctica. Reference: “Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf” by Anna Wåhlin, Karen E.

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"Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf" is a research paper published in Science Advances ...

Our publications - British Antarctic Survey

Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf. 31 July, 2024 by Kelly Hogan, Peter Davis, Robert Larter.

Ice-shelf basal morphology from an upward-looking multibeam ...

The huge cavities beneath floating Antarctic ice shelves have only been explored recently by autonomous underwater vehicles. (AUVs).

Bathymetry Beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Revealed ...

The southern AmIS has the deepest Antarctic ice in contact with the ocean, making it particularly susceptible to ocean heat since the in-situ ...

Submersible Finds Secret Structures, Vanishes Under Antarctic Waters

A submersible revealed hidden ice structures under the Antarctic before vanishing, highlighting the complexities of ice shelf melting ...

Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ...

For example it is thought that recent un-grounding of an ice rumple within the ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment has contributed to ...

Robotic submarine found mystery melt patterns under Antarctic ice

An unlikely pioneer -- an unmanned submersible named 'Ran' -- is shedding new light on the melting Antarctic ice shelves.

Cold Ocean Cavity and Weak Basal Melting of the Sørsdal Ice Shelf ...

Ocean-driven melting at the base of ice shelves is the main contributor to mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet (Liu et al., 2015). Ice ...

Vulnerability of East Antarctic ice streams to warm ocean water ...

The 0.7°C is above the melting point of glaciers and this water mass has enough heat to cause significant melting of the Totten Ice Shelf and Glacier as it is ...

Scientists Capture New View of How the Ocean Melts Antarctica's ...

“We've had hints of how complex ice-shelf bases are but Ran uncovered a more extensive and complete picture than ever before. The imagery from ...

Regimes and Transitions in the Basal Melting of Antarctic Ice ...

... ice shelf cavities have revealed a range of different cavity environments and melting behaviors. ... base of Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. J. Phys. Oceanogr ...

Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line

... unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet. Nat. Geosci ... melt rate near the ice front of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. J ...

Review article: Earth's ice imbalance - The Cryosphere

Arctic sea ice (7.6 trillion tonnes), Antarctic ice shelves (6.5 trillion tonnes), mountain glaciers (6.1 trillion tonnes), the Greenland ice ...

Why East Antarctica is a 'sleeping giant' of sea level rise - BBC

... ice sheet, European researchers from the Concordia base staged a ... Antarctica to flow onto the continental shelf and melt ice shelves.

Why Ice Shelves Matter | National Snow and Ice Data Center

Because ice shelves are exposed to both the air above and the ocean below, ice shelves respond more quickly than ice sheets or glaciers to rising temperatures.

Underwater mapping reveals insights into melting of ice shelves

Base of a West Antarctic Ice Shelf ... Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Research: Recent research utilized an AUV equipped with multibeam sonar ...