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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 40, Issue 22, Pages 5882-5887Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058023
Keywords
optical televiewing; firn density; ice shelf density; OPTV
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- Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- NERC [NE/J013544/1]
- Knowledge Enterprise Skills Scholarship
- Climate Change Consortium of Wales
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J013544/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/J013544/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Optical televiewer luminosity logs are compared with densities measured gravimetrically on 520 snow, firn, and ice samples from two locations of similar annual temperature (similar to -14 degrees C) and contrasting accumulation rates (0.23 and 0.43m water equivalent per year) on the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica. At the scale of 10(-1) m, an inverse exponential relationship (R-2=0.96) is recorded between density and luminosity, indicating (i) that optical televiewing luminosity provides an effective proxy for density at such ice shelves and (ii) that densities may be reconstructed from boreholes drilled elsewhere by hot water without the need for core material. Our analysis also suggests that this relationship may hold for newly formed ice as well as for snow and firn. At the scale of 10(-1) m, both luminosity and density show similar patterns, but precise correlation is confounded by detailed differences between the two records.
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