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Antarctic Ice Sheets




Glacier Grounding Lines

Glacier Grounding lines are a key indicator of Antarctic ice-sheet instability. Changes in their position reflect imbalance with the surrounding ocean and affect the flow of inland ice.

Data Sets Available for Download

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ASCII Rates of Antarctic Grounding Line Migration (vgl) and respective uncertainty (delta vgl) from Cryosat-2 surface elevation and surface elevation change observations 5 lines of header
Per line:
latitude (decimal degs)
longitude (decimal degs East)
Rate of GL Migration (m/yr)
Uncertainty in GL rate (m/yr)
gl_migration_konrad_et_al_2018.txt

A full explanation of methods and data is given in:

Konrad, Shepherd, Gilbert, Hogg, McMillan, Muir, and Slater: Net retreat of Antarctic glacier grounding lines, Nature Geoscience, 11, 258-262, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0082-z

For this data set, the direction of grounding line motion was assumed to follow option 3 as explained in the Methods section of the referenced publication.

When using these data, please acknowledge the authors by citing this article.

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