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The article discusses the study on the impact of global climate change on the spatial distributions of the basal melting and freezing at the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antartica. It examines the surface elevation and accumulation rate datasets of the ice velocity along with a column-averaged ice density model and hydrographic observations. It estimates the net melt over the ice-shelf base is which is higher than previous modeling and oceanographic estimates. It notes that the net basal melting accounts for about half of the total ice-shelf mass loss and from the iceberg discharge. It adds that the basal melting and freezing distribution map has provided a scientific basis for quantitative analysis of ice and ocean interaction at the ice-shelf and ocean interface.