Bindschadler Ice Stream
| Bindschadler Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Type | Ice flow | |
| length | 500 km | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 0 ′ S , 142 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Bindschadler-ice stream (formerly ice flow D ) is a 500 km long river of ice in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It flows at a surface speed of up to 800 meters per year between the Siple Dome and the MacAyeal Ice Current in a westerly direction to the Ross Ice Shelf .
Employees of the United States Antarctic Research Program explored these and other ice streams of Marie Byrd land between 1983 and 1984. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 2002 after the US glaciologist Robert Alan Bindschadler from the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA , from 1983 to 1998 senior scientist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on studies of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet including the ice flows in the area of the Siple Coast , their interaction with the Ross Ice Shelf and the role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global warming .
Web links
- Bindschadler Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bindschadler Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG): Antarctica: More dynamic than assumed , accessed on April 24, 2013