Jacqueline Halpin1, Alex Burton-Johnson2, Sally Watson1, Joanne Whittaker1, Tobias Staal1, Anya Reading1, Alessandro Maritati1 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom The geothermal heat flux (GHF) to the base of...
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Matthew Gard1, Derrick Hasterok1 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia In this study, we develop a new model for heat flux and crustal temperatures for the Antarctic continent utilising new geophysical and geochemical constraints. Crustal heat flux directly influences ice sheet...
- March 9, 2018
Fausto Ferraccioli1, Jörg Ebbing2 1Nerc/British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany Geothermal heat flux is a key and yet poorly understood boundary condition that can affect past, present and future ice sheet dynamics via e.g. its...
- March 9, 2018
Folker Pappa1, Giovanni Macelloni3, Michael Kern2, Fausto Ferraccioli4, Jörg Ebbing1 1Kiel University, Germany, 2ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands, 3IFAC-CNR, Italy, 4British Antarctic Survey, , UK Different methods have been applied in recent years to quantify the thermal structure of Antarctica. Estimates are often...
- March 9, 2018
Ricarda Dziadek1, Fausto Ferraccioli2, Karsten Gohl1 1Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre For Polar And Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK The West Antarctic Rift System is one of the least understood rift systems on earth, but...
- March 9, 2018
Ricarda Dziadek1, Karsten Gohl1, Norbert Kaul2 1Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre For Polar And Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany Due to a complex tectonic and magmatic history of West Antarctica, the region...
- March 9, 2018
Winnie Chu1, Tom Jordan1,2, Yasmina Martos4,5, Dustin Schroeder1,3, Jonathan Bamber2 1Department of Geophysics, Stanford University , Stanford, United States, 2School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University , Stanford , United States,...
- March 9, 2018
Carolyn Branecky Begeman1, Slawek Tulaczyk1, Andy Fisher1 1University Of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States The difficulty of measuring geothermal heat flux (GHF) below ice sheets has directly hindered progress in understanding their role in ice sheet dynamics. We...
- March 9, 2018
Lucas H. Beem1, Jason L. Roberts2, Catherine Ritz3, Duncan A. Young1, Thomas G. Richter1, Donald D. Blankenship1 1University Of Texas – Institute For Geophysics, Austin, United States, 2Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia, 3University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France Basal heat...
- March 9, 2018
Syed Abdul Salam1, Jacqueline Halpin1, Felicity Graham1, Jason Roberts2 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia, 2CRC-Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems, Hobart, Australia Geothermal heat flux (GHF) supplied to the base of the Antarctic ice sheet strongly controls its internal...
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