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Thickness and flow of Mountain glaciers

R. Millan1, J. Mouginot1, A. Rabatel1, M. Morlighem2, 2022, Ice thickness and flow of the world’s glaciers
1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
2: University of California Irvine, Dept. Earth System Science, Irvine, CA 92697

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Methodology: Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Rabatel, A., Jeong, S., Cusicanqui, D., Derkacheva, A., & Chekki, M. (2019). Mapping surface flow velocity of glaciers at regional scale using a multiple sensors approach. Remote Sensing, 11(21), 2498.

Glacier outlines: RGI Consortium (2017). Randolph Glacier Inventory – A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines: Version 6.0: Technical Report, Global Land Ice Measurements from Space , Colorado, USA. Digital Media. doi:10.7265/N5-RGI-60. Accessed June 2021.

Antarctica

Thickness: Morlighem, M. 2020. MEaSUREs BedMachine Antarctica, Version 2. Ice Sheet Thickness. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center.doi:10.5067/E1QL9HFQ7A8M doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/E1QL9HFQ7A8M. Accessed June 2021.
Velocity: Mouginot, J., E. Rignot, and B. Scheuchl. 2019. MEaSUREs Phase-Based Antarctica Ice Velocity Map, Version 1. Velocity. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center.doi:10.5067/PZ3NJ5RXRH10. Accessed June 2021.
Bassin boundaries: Mouginot, J., B. Scheuchl, and E. Rignot. 2017. MEaSUREs Antarctic Boundaries for IPY 2007-2009 from Satellite Radar, Version 2. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi:10.5067/AXE4121732AD. Accessed June 2021.

Greenland

Thickness: Morlighem M. et al., (2017), BedMachine v3: Complete bed topography and ocean bathymetry mapping of Greenland from multi-beam echo sounding combined with mass conservation, Ice Sheet Thickness. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL074954. Accessed June 2021.
Velocity and bassin boundaries: Mouginot J, Rignot E, Bjørk AA, van den Broeke M, Millan R, Morlighem M, Noël B, Scheuchl B, Wood M. Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 May 7;116(19):9239-9244. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904242116.

Acknowledgements

This work was performed under a post-doctoral fellowship from the French Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the CNES MaiSON project and Labex OSUG@2020 (Investissements d’avenir - ANR10 LABX56). We gratefully acknowledge Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, European Space Agency, Copernicus Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. for providing the observation used in this paper (Landsat-8, ASTER, Sentinel-1&-2, TanDEM-X, Venµs). We would like to thank the RGI and GLATHIDA database, the Service National d’Observation GLACIOCLIM (https://glacioclim.osug.fr/). The computing/storage resources (about 4 MCPU-hours and 100 Tb) used for this work were provided by high performance clusters from GRICAD (Grenoble Alpes Recherche -Infrastructure de Calcul Intensif et de Données).

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