First ice thickness measurements in Tierra del Fuego at Schiaparelli Glacier, Chile

Gacitúa, Guisella; Schneider, Christoph; Arigony, Jorge; González, Inti; Jaña, Ricardo; Casassa, Gino

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-231-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-231-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-231-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Brief communication

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03 Feb 2021

Brief communication |

| 03 Feb 2021

First ice thickness measurements in Tierra del Fuego at Schiaparelli Glacier, Chile

Guisella Gacitúa, Christoph Schneider, Jorge Arigony, Inti González, Ricardo Jaña, and Gino Casassa

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Final revised paper (published on 03 Feb 2021)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Howard Conway, 24 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Guisella Gacitua, 11 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Review for paper essd-2020-111', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Guisella Gacitua, 11 Nov 2020
RC3: 'Review', Kenichi Matsuoka, 13 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 3', Guisella Gacitua, 11 Nov 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Guisella Gacitúa on behalf of the Authors (11 Nov 2020) Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Dec 2020) by Prasad Gogineni

AR by Guisella Gacitúa on behalf of the Authors (16 Dec 2020) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (20 Dec 2020) by Prasad Gogineni

AR by Guisella Gacitúa on behalf of the Authors (26 Dec 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

We performed the first successful ice thickness measurements using terrestrial ground-penetrating radar in the ablation area of Schiaparelli Glacier (Cordillera Darwin, Tierra del Fuego, Chile). Data are fundamental to understand glaciers dynamics, constrain ice dynamical modelling, and predict glacier evolution. Results show a valley-shaped bedrock below current sea level; thus further retreat of Schiaparelli Glacier will probably lead to an enlarged and strongly over-deepened proglacial lake.