Mass balance of ice shelves is the key knowledge to better understand ongoing and future Antarctic contributions to the global sea-level rise. Thinning rates of ice shelves vary widely around Antarctica, and ice shelves in Dronning Maud Land (DML) are poorly understood in particular. DML is characterized with loosely-connected ice shelves along its 2000-km-long coast. Individual ice shelves are relatively small but extend close to or even beyond the continental-shelf break. Most of such ice shelves are punctuated by numerous grounded features (ice rises and rumples); ice rises are locations where ice-shelf flow is diverted around the grounded ice. Such grounded features are known to play vital roles in ice-shelf and ice-sheet dynamics over various timescales. The ice rises and rumples interact with adjacent ice shelves, ocean, and atmosphere, so these elements are inter-connected and need to be understood together.

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