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Thwaites ice front position shapefiles 2000-2018
This dataset contains the annual ice front position shapefiles of the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue between 2000 and 2018 as shown in the Miles et al. (2020) paper. Each shapefile was mapped manually from MODIS imagery in the March of each year. The dataset details the retreat of the ice tongue and transition from a tabular calving regime to a disintegration type calving.
This work was funded by NERC grant NE/R000824/1.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2021-01-11
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-01-11
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-01-11
- Date (released)
- 2021-01-11
- Edition
- 1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/1355a656-2b8d-4e95-b524-bfc1a7c686fb
- Codespace
- doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01456
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Unique resource identifier
- NE/R000824/1
- Codespace
- award
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: Miles, B., Stokes, C., Jenkins, A., Jordan, J., Jamieson, S., & Gudmundsson, G. (2021). Thwaites ice front position shapefiles 2000-2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/1355a656-2b8d-4e95-b524-bfc1a7c686fb
- Credit
- No credit.
- Status
- completed Completed
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Theme
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- Thwaites
- calving
- glacier
- ice front
- terminus
- Place
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- Thwaites Glacier Antarctica
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- no limitations to public access
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- no limitations
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- license License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Use constraints
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- Other constraints
- This data is supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Other constraints
- No restrictions apply.
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- Association Type
- crossReference Cross reference
- Unique resource identifier
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- Association Type
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- Spatial representation type
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- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2000-01-01
- End date
- 2018-12-31
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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- Statement
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Methodology:
The ice front position was mapped every March between 2000 and 2018 from MODIS satellite imagery. In some cases, the heavily fractured nature of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue made mapping the ice front difficult. For consistency, we took the same approach for each image and always mapped the outer edge of connected ice blocks at each time step.
Data collection:
The ice-fronts were mapped from MODIS satellite imagery from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov).
Data quality:
In some cases, the heavily fractured nature of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue made mapping the ice front difficult. For consistency, we took the same approach for each image and always mapped the outer edge of connected ice blocks at each time step.
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- 1355a656-2b8d-4e95-b524-bfc1a7c686fb XML
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
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- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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- Date stamp
- 2021-01-11
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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