iSTAR C (Dynamic Ice) aims to understand the processes responsible for transmitting the effect of thinning of the Pine Island Glacier’s floating ice shelf upstream, and use this to predict the future ice thinning rates.
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CPOM’s role has included using satellite remote sensing (altimetry and interferometry) to measure the changing configuration of the glacier in areas that cannot bed accessed on the ground, as well as the development of computer models of past and future changes in the flow of Pine Island Glacier. Together with iSTAR-D, these are being used to improve forecasts of the contribution of Pine Island Glacier to sea-level rise, as well as that of all similar glaciers that drain West Antarctica.
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