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The regime of the western part of the Ross Ice Shelf drainage system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

A. Bauer
A. Bauer*
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Centre d’Études Glaciologiques des Régions Arctiques et Antarctiques, Face au 22, Quai Carnot, 92 Saint-Cloud, France
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Journal of Glaciology , Volume 6 , Issue 48 , 1967, pp. 959
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Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1967

Sir,

I am writing to you in connection with the article by Reference GiovinettoGiovinetto and others (1966). In this paper the results of studies on the glaciers flowing through the Trans-Antarctic Mountains are very interesting.

Unfortunately there are two comments which must be made concerning the study of the regime of the drainage basin of these glaciers:

  • a. The delineation of the drainage basin is purely hypothetical.

  • b. The supposition that all the ice in this hypothetical basin flows exclusively through the glaciers mentioned, and that no ice crosses the western, southern or northern boundaries of this hypothetical drainage basin, cannot be justified at all.

It follows from this that a calculation of errors applied to the terms in the mass balance is nothing but an illusion, as it is not the error calculation which gives precision to a calculation, but the reality of the quantities one uses.

The positive budget they report is therefore of no significance.

References

Giovinetto, M. B., and others. 1966. The regime of the western part of the Ross Ice Shelf drainage system, by M.[B.]Giovinetto, E. S. Robinson and C. W. M. Swithinbank. Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 6, No. 43, p. 55–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar