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DOI | 10.1029/2019GL082485 |
Ice Thickness and Bed Elevation of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields | |
Millan, R.1,2; Rignot, E.1,3,4; Rivera, A.4,5; Martineau, V.1; Mouginot, J.1,2; Zamora, R.4; Uribe, J.4; Lenzano, G.6; De Fleurian, B.7; Li, X.1; Gim, Y.3; Kirchner, D.8 | |
2019-06-28 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 46期号:12页码:6626-6635 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; France; Chile; Argentina; Norway |
英文摘要 | The Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields are the largest ice masses in the Southern Hemisphere outside Antarctica, but their ice volume and bed topography are poorly known. Here, we combine airborne gravity data collected in 2012 and 2016, with radar data from the Warm Ice Experiment Sounder and Centro de Estudios Cientificos's to map bed elevation and ice thickness in great detail. We perform a 3-D inversion of the gravity data constrained by radar-derived thickness and fjord bathymetry to infer bed elevation at 500-m spacing, with a precision of about 60 m. We detect deep glacial valleys with ice thickness exceeding 1,400 m and sectors below sea level on the western branch of Glaciar Pio XI, Occidental, between San Rafael and Colonia, and near Fitz Roy. We calculate an ice volume of 4,756 +/- 923km(3) for Northern Patagonia Icefield and Southern Patagonia Icefield, or 40 times the volume of glaciers in the European Alps. Plain Language Summary Traditional techniques of radar depth sounding fail to resolve thick, temperate ice masses due to poor penetration of the radar signals into snow and ice and extensive scattering due to water content. We combine sparse airborne radar sounding and bathymetry data with novel high-resolution, high-precision airborne gravity data to infer the bed topography of the Patagonia Icefields of South America. The results reveal the full range of deep ice thickness on the plateau, portions of the icefields grounded below sea level, and the total volume content of the Patagonia Icefields. The results are critical to constrain the details of the past, present, and future evolution of this glaciated region in a warmer climate. |
英文关键词 | Patagonian Icefields airborne gravity radar depth sounder ice thickness bedrock topography ice volume |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000477616300052 |
WOS关键词 | OPERATION ICEBRIDGE ; MASS-BALANCE ; GLACIER ; BATHYMETRY ; GREENLAND ; ANTARCTICA ; DYNAMICS ; GRAVITY ; RETREAT ; BENEATH |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/184251 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Irvine, CA 92697 USA; 2.Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP,IGE, Grenoble, France; 3.CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA USA; 4.Ctr Estudios Cient, Valdivia, Chile; 5.Univ Chile, Dept Geog, Santiago, Chile; 6.Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, CCT, Inst Argentino Nivol Glaciol & Ciencias Ambiental, Dept Geomat, Mendoza, Argentina; 7.Univ Bergen, Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, Bergen, Norway; 8.Univ Iowa, Dept Phys & Astron, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Millan, R.,Rignot, E.,Rivera, A.,et al. Ice Thickness and Bed Elevation of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,46(12):6626-6635. |
APA | Millan, R..,Rignot, E..,Rivera, A..,Martineau, V..,Mouginot, J..,...&Kirchner, D..(2019).Ice Thickness and Bed Elevation of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(12),6626-6635. |
MLA | Millan, R.,et al."Ice Thickness and Bed Elevation of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.12(2019):6626-6635. |
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