Publication Date:
2024-04-17
Description:
We present Bedmap2, a new suite of gridded
products describing surface elevation, ice-thickness and the seafloor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60 S. We derived these products using data from a variety of sources, including many substantial surveys completed
since the original Bedmap compilation (Bedmap1) in 2001. In particular, the Bedmap2 ice thickness grid is made
from 25 million measurements, over two orders of magnitude more than were used in Bedmap1. In most parts of Antarctica
the subglacial landscape is visible in much greater detail than was previously available and the improved datacoverage has in many areas revealed the full scale of mountain
ranges, valleys, basins and troughs, only fragments of which were previously indicated in local surveys. The derived statistics for Bedmap2 show that the volume of ice
contained in the Antarctic ice sheet (27 million km3) and its potential contribution to sea-level rise (58 m) are similar
to those of Bedmap1, but the mean thickness of the ice sheet is 4.6% greater, the mean depth of the bed beneath the grounded ice sheet is 72m lower and the area of ice
sheet grounded on bed below sea level is increased by 10 %.
The Bedmap2 compilation highlights several areas beneath the ice sheet where the bed elevation is substantially lower
than the deepest bed indicated by Bedmap1. These products, along with grids of data coverage and uncertainty, provide new opportunities for detailed modelling of the past and future evolution of the Antarctic ice sheets.
Description:
Published
Description:
375–393
Description:
1.8. Osservazioni di geofisica ambientale
Description:
3.8. Geofisica per l'ambiente
Description:
JCR Journal
Description:
open
Keywords:
Antarctic bedrock topography
;
Antarctic mass balance
;
01. Atmosphere::01.01. Atmosphere::01.01.02. Climate
;
02. Cryosphere::02.02. Glaciers::02.02.04. Ice
;
02. Cryosphere::02.02. Glaciers::02.02.05. Ice dynamics
;
02. Cryosphere::02.02. Glaciers::02.02.06. Mass balance
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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