18 Years of Satellite Radar Altimetry in Antarctica

Susheel Adusumilli

Why Ice Shelves?

Buttressing

Lincoln cathedral

Furst et. al, Nature Clim. Change, 2015

All Antarctica

All Antarctica

Radar (ERS - 1,2, ENVISAT)Laser (ICESat)

Get the wrong picture with only part of the time series

Paolo et al., Science (2015)

Paolo et al., Science (2015)

1994

2004

2000

2015

Paolo et al., Science (2015)