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Estimation of Basal Heat Flux Over Ice-Covered Areas From Radio Echo-Sounding

  • David J. Drewry
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Two fundamental boundary conditions for basal ice may be recognized by radio echo-sounding: ice–rock and ice–water interfaces. The latter is identified on the basis of horizontal echoes displaying slow fading, high persistent returned power, and with a reflection coefficient lying between –1 and –3 dB. Such water, located beneath an ice sheet, provides a known limiting condition to the vertical temperature profile and allows more precise calculation of the basal temperature gradient and estimation of the heat flux through the sole.

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Decker, E. R., and Bucher, G. In press. Preliminary geothermal studies in the Ross Island–dry valley region. (In Craddock, C., ed. Antarctic geoscience. Proceedings of the third Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, Madison, 22–27 August, 1977. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press.)
Drewry, D. J. In press. Ice flow, bedrock, and geothermal studies inland of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. (In Craddock, C., ed. Antarctic geoscience. Proceedings of the third Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, Madison, 22–27 August, 1977. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press.)
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Journal of Glaciology
  • ISSN: 0022-1430
  • EISSN: 1727-5652
  • URL: /core/journals/journal-of-glaciology
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