Remote sensing of surface melt on Antarctica: Opportunities and challenges

S de Roda Husman, Z Hu, B Wouters… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surface melt is an important driver of ice shelf disintegration and its consequent mass loss
over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Monitoring surface melt using satellite remote sensing can …

Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet

C Kittel, C Amory, C Agosta, NC Jourdain… - The Cryosphere …, 2020‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The future surface mass balance (SMB) will influence the ice dynamics and the contribution
of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) to the sea-level rise. Most of recent Antarctic SMB projections …

Substantial contribution of slush to meltwater area across Antarctic ice shelves

RL Dell, IC Willis, NS Arnold, AF Banwell… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Surface melting occurs across many of Antarctica's ice shelves, mainly during the austral
summer. The onset, duration, area and fate of surface melting varies spatially and …

A novel method for automated supraglacial lake map** in Antarctica using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and deep learning

M Dirscherl, AJ Dietz, C Kneisel, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Supraglacial meltwater accumulation on ice sheets can be a main driver for accelerated ice
discharge, mass loss, and global sea-level-rise. With further increasing surface air …

The 32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on the northern George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

AF Banwell, RT Datta, RL Dell, M Moussavi… - The …, 2021‏ - tc.copernicus.org
In the 2019/2020 austral summer, the surface melt duration and extent on the northern
George VI Ice Shelf (GVIIS) was exceptional compared to the 31 previous summers of …

A continent-wide detailed geological map dataset of Antarctica

SC Cox, B Smith Lyttle, S Elkind, C Smith Siddoway… - Scientific Data, 2023‏ - nature.com
A dataset to describe exposed bedrock and surficial geology of Antarctica has been
constructed by the GeoMAP Action Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research …

Quantifying Antarctic‐wide ice‐shelf surface melt volume using microwave and firn model data: 1980 to 2021

AF Banwell, N Wever, D Dunmire… - Geophysical Research …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic ice‐shelf stability is threatened by surface melt, which has been implicated in
several ice‐shelf collapse events over recent decades. Here, we first analyze cumulative …

Antarctic-wide ice-shelf firn emulation reveals robust future firn air depletion signal for the Antarctic Peninsula

D Dunmire, N Wever, AF Banwell… - Communications Earth & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Antarctic firn is critical for ice-shelf stability because it stores meltwater that would otherwise
pond on the surface. Ponded meltwater increases the risk of hydrofracture and subsequent …

Observations of buried lake drainage on the Antarctic Ice Sheet

D Dunmire, JTM Lenaerts, AF Banwell… - Geophysical …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Between 1992 and 2017, the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) lost ice equivalent to 7.6±3.9
mm of sea level rise. AIS mass loss is mitigated by ice shelves that provide a buttress by …

Large interannual variability in supraglacial lakes around East Antarctica

JF Arthur, CR Stokes, SSR Jamieson… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Antarctic supraglacial lakes (SGLs) have been linked to ice shelf collapse and the
subsequent acceleration of inland ice flow, but observations of SGLs remain relatively …