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Freeboard and mass extraction of the disintegrated Mertz Ice 
Tongue with remote sensing and altimetry data

 

Xianwei Wang ^a,b,c,, Xiao Cheng ^a, Peng Gong ^d,e, C.K. Shum ^a,c, David M. Holland ^b, Xiaowen Li ^a

 

a State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

b Center for Global Sea Level Change, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

c Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, OH 43210, USA

d Ministry of Education Laboratory Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, and Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

e Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA

 

ABSTRACT

In February 2010, the Mertz Ice Tongue (MIT) collapsed and generated a giant iceberg. However, parameters about this iceberg have not been calculated and published in detail. In this study, the freeboard map of this iceberg was generated for the first time using a time-series ICESat/GLAS data. Methods for producing the freeboard map of this iceberg are suggested. Field data for ice velocity were used to relocate the footprints collected by different campaigns. Cross-validation was conducted with freeboards extracted from crossovers observed within 30 days of each other. The precision of the freeboard extraction is approximately ±  0.50 m, when taking one standard deviation as the precision. The freeboard varied from 23 m to 59 m with the mean of 41 m. With assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium (assuming a snow layer depth of 1 m, a snow density of 360 kg/m3, an ice density of 915 kg/m3 and a sea water density of 1024 kg/m3), the minimum, maximum and average ice thickness were calculated as 210 m, 550 m and 383 m respectively. The total ice loss is approximately 8.96 × 1011 tons over an area, 34 km in width and 75 km in length, or approximately 2560 ± 5 km2. These parameters extracted from remote sensing and altimetry data will provide additional information for studies of the evolution of iceberg, especially in iceberg tracking system.
 

 

KEY WORDS: Freeboard, Ice thickness, ICESat, Remote sensing, Mertz Ice Tongue

 

PUBLISHED BY: REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 2014, 144: 1-10

 

SOURCE:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425714000157#