Detection of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes Activities Using ICESat Altimetry Data

ZHOU Chunxia; ZHAO Qiuyang; QIANG Qiang

doi:10.13203/j.whugis20170023

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Oct. 2018

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ZHOU Chunxia, ZHAO Qiuyang, QIANG Qiang. Detection of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes Activities Using ICESat Altimetry Data[J]. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, 2018, 43(10): 1458-1464, 1471. DOI: 10.13203/j.whugis20170023

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Detection of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes Activities Using ICESat Altimetry Data

ZHOU Chunxia^{1, 2,},
ZHAO Qiuyang^{1, 2},
QIANG Qiang^{1, 2}

1.
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Key Laboratory of Polar Surveying and Mapping, NASG, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China

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The National Natural Science Foundation of China 41531069

The National Natural Science Foundation of China 41776200

The National Natural Science Foundation of China 41376187

the Chinese Polar Environment Comprehensive Investigation & Assessment Program CHINARE2016-02-04

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ZHOU Chunxia, PhD, professor, specializes in InSAR and polar remote sensing. E-mail: zhoucx@whu.edu.cn
Received Date: December 10, 2017
Published Date: October 04, 2018

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Antarctic subglacial lakes form an important component of the subglacial hydrological system. The movements of some subglacial lakes have great impacts on subglacial hydrology, ice-flow velocity, mass balance of ice sheet and sea level changes. According to the deformation of the ice-sheet above the subglacial lakes, the repeat-track algorithm based on ICESat altimetry data was introduced to detect the height changes of subglacial lakes. Then simulative models were established to analyze the ice-sheet deformation caused by the different patterns of active subglacial lakes. Finally, the Aca-demy₁₂ and Cook_E2 subglacial lakes were selected to analyze the actual application of the algorithm. The results show that the ice-sheet above the Academy₁₂ and Cook_E2 subglacial lakes went up 6 m and went down 70 m respectively. All the altimetry data applied in the repeat-track algorithm is capable of detecting the right height changes when the height change patterns are steady. However, when there exists high variability of the height change patterns, the proper altimetry data should be adopted to calculate the topography in order to get the right height changes.
- ICESat,
- subglacial lake,
- height change,
- simulation model,
- repeat-track algorithm

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