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The article presents a thermo-hydrodynamic modelling study of the low-elevation blue-ice areas in Antarctica where significant amounts of subsurface liquid water during summer can be contained and absorption of shortwave radiation can be experienced. The study of the phenomenon is using the existing 2-D (x-z) model and is improved by changing the optical and thermal boundary conditions together with the optical attenuation coefficient. Significant effect of spatial variability of snow on subsurface melting has been found out.

The article examines the composition, structure and deformation of amber ice as well as its influence on Rhone Glacier's behaviour in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. The basal ice sequence of the cold-based glacier was investigated using isotopic and solute chemistry data. The study identifies three different ice facies including englacial, amber and stratified. The analysis of stratified facies shows an isotopic signature which indicates melt then refreeze processes and is most likely associated with apron entrainment. It was found out that impurities in the amber ice has prolonged contact with the bed and that depleted isotopic signature is consistent with ice formed during a cooler period.

The article focuses on the velocity field of Brunt Ice Shelf and Stancomb-Wills Ice Tongue in East Antarctica. It notes that the velocity is developed using the automated feature-tracking techniques on RADASTAT-1 imagery from the 1997 Antarctica Mapping Mission-1 (AMM-1) and 2000 Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission (MAMM). The velocity field and radar images investigation shows divergence of contemporary flowlines from relict flow stripes along a portion of Stacomb-Wills Ice Tongue. The velocity field was used in reconstructing the former stripe configuration.

The article focuses on the determination of basal conditions for Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers in West Antarctica. Study shows strong basal melting in upstream areas where the ice flow is fast and the basal shear stress is large. It was found out that both glaciers have mixed bed conditions with extensive areas of bedrock and weak till. The ice-stream model reveals a strong sensitivity to the assumed bed model. The results offers compatibility with limited observational constraints and theoretical work indicating an upper bound on maximum basal shear stress.