Estimating volumes of supraglacial lakes on the AIS: Comparing satellite-based and model-based techniques for estimating water volume of supraglacial lakes on the Antarctic ice sheet

Disintegration of Antarctic ice shelves can induce devastated consequences for the environment and human infrastructure in the form of an increase of the global mean sea level. One of the causes of an ice shelf break down is hydrofracturing due to the mass load of supraglacial lakes. The top of the snowpack melts and the meltwater flows to a...