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Title
Data from: Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves
Creator
Fricker, Helen A
Date Created and/or Issued
1994–2018
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
Collection
Data from: Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves
Rights Information
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Description
Ocean-driven basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves is the largest component of ice sheet mass loss, influencing grounded-ice dynamics and the global ocean. Existing datasets do not represent the known time and space variability of melt rates around Antarctica, leading to unrealistic forcing of ice sheet and climate models. Here, we use satellite radar altimeter data from 1994 to 2018, combined with satellite-derived velocities and a new model of the surface firn-layer evolution, to develop a map of high-resolution melt rates (2010-2018 average) and a time series of thickness changes for 1994-2018, for almost all ice shelf areas.
NASA grant NNX17AI03G NASA grant NNX17AG63G NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Adusumilli, Susheel; Fricker, Helen A.; Medley, Brooke C.; Padman, Laurie; Siegfried, Matthew R. (2020). Data from: Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J04Q7SHT
Is Supplement To: Adusumilli, S., Fricker, H.A., Medley, B. et al. Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. Nat. Geosci. 13, 616–620 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0616-z
Type
Dataset
Language
English
Subject
Ice shelves
Firn layer
Melt rates
Antarctica
Place
Antarctica

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