The bathymetric and subglacial hydrological context for basal melting of the West Ice Shelf in East Antarctica


Wei Wei1, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum2, Noel Gourmelen3, Christine F Dow4, Sun Bo5, JingXue Guo5, Tas D van Ommen6, Jason L Roberts7, Duncan A Young2 and Donald D Blankenship2, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (3)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)University of Waterloo, Applied Mathematics, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (5)Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China, (6)Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia, (7)Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia