How do ice shelf basal terraces melt? Direct observations of ice-ocean interactions within a basal terrace beneath Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf yield insights

Peter Washam1, Britney Schmidt2, Peter E D Davis3, Keith W Nicholls4, Paul Holland4, Ken Zhao5, Veronica Hegelein6, Kiya L Riverman7, James Smith4, Paul Anker4, Andrew Mullen8, Daniel Dichek9, David Holland10 and Keith Makinson11, (1)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (3)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5)UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (6)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Ithaca, United States, (7)University of Portland, Portland, OR, United States, (8)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (9)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, (10)New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States, (11)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Polar Oceans, Cambridge, United Kingdom