Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-887-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-887-2020
Data description paper
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20 Apr 2020
Data description paper |  | 20 Apr 2020

An updated seabed bathymetry beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Alex Brisbourne, Bernd Kulessa, Thomas Hudson, Lianne Harrison, Paul Holland, Adrian Luckman, Suzanne Bevan, David Ashmore, Bryn Hubbard, Emma Pearce, James White, Adam Booth, Keith Nicholls, and Andrew Smith

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Booth, A., White, J., Pearce, E., Cornford, S., Brisbourne, A., Luckman, A., and Kulessa, B.: Seismic refraction data from two sites on Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf, Nov 2017, following the calving of Iceberg A68 [Data set], UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation, https://doi.org/10.5285/147BAF64-B9AF-4A97-8091-26AEC0D3C0BB, 2019. 
Brisbourne, A., Hudson, T., and Holland, P.: Seismic bathymetry data, Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen C Ice Shelf, 2016 [Data set], UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation, https://doi.org/10.5285/315740B1-A7B9-4CF0-9521-86F046E33E9A, 2019. 
Brisbourne, A. M., Smith, A. M., King, E. C., Nicholls, K. W., Holland, P. R., and Makinson, K.: Seabed topography beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf from seismic soundings, The Cryosphere, 8, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-1-2014, 2014. 
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Melting of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica may lead to its collapse. To help estimate its lifespan we need to understand how the ocean can circulate beneath. This requires knowledge of the geometry of the sub-shelf cavity. New and existing measurements of seabed depth are integrated to produce a map of the ocean cavity beneath the ice shelf. The observed deep seabed may provide a pathway for circulation of warm ocean water but at the same time reduce rapid tidal melt at a critical location.
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