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Jones, P. C., & Ferraccioli, F. (2020). Processed line aerogravity data over Northern Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula (2002/03 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/5388DB62-4A5E-4072-9B01-3A65785D80A0

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Methodology:

SPARC airborne gravity data and details of survey design and data processing are presented in Ferraccioli et al (2006).

The dataset available here includes channels from raw through to filtered and upward continued free air anomalies, where data was recoverable. Data processing steps are outlined below

Processing steps:

1/ Calculate observed gravity.

True spring tension (ST_real) is calculated from the posted spring tension (ST) correcting for the fact that for this survey the true spring tension approaches the posted value at 38 mGal per second.

Beam velocity (Beam_vel) is derived from raw beam position (RB) assuming a centred difference approximation.

Relative gravity (rec_grav) = (Spr_tens_real+((beam_vel)*k_fac)+CC)*scale_value, k_fac=30, meter scale value =0.9966.

Still readings (Still) are in mGal and were calculating assuming a 2nd order best fit to the approximately linear drift of the meter observed at the tie down points.

Airborne absolute gravity values (Abs_grav) = Rec_grav- Still + Base

2/ Corrections to derive free air anomalies (disturbances).

Vertical acceleration (VaccCor) is calculated as 2nd derivative of flight altitude (Height_WGS1984), with a 3 point mean filter applied after differencing to reduce short wavelength noise.

Eotvos correction (EotvosCor) follows (Harlan, 1968).

Latitude correction (LatCor) = 978.03185(1+0.005278895 sin2Lat- 0.000023462 sin4Lat) (IUGG 1967).

Free air correction (FaCor) = 0.3086*Height_WGS1984. NOTE subsequent free air values are defined as gravity disturbances in geodesy, as they are referred to the ellipsoid (Hackney and Featherstone, 2003).

Horizontal acceleration correction (HaccCor). For this survey the approximation of (Swain, 1996) was used, assuming a damping factor of 0.707, and a platform period of 4 minutes.

3/ Free air anomaly and filtering.

Free air anomaly (Free_air) = Abs_grav-VaccCor+EotvosCor+FaCor-LatCor-(0.5*HaccCor)

Filtered free air anomaly (FAA_filt) used 9 km 1/2 wavelength space domain kernel filter (Holt et al., 2006).

Final free air data (FAA_clip) was produced by manually masking turns, start and end of lines, and other regions of noisy data.

Upward continued free air anomaly (Faacont) was produced by upward continuing free air data from the collected flight altitude to 2800 m.

Channel description:

Basic Channels

Date UTC date (YYYY/MM/DD)

Time UTC time (HH:MM:SS.SS)

FlightID Sequential flight number and survey ID e.g. W12

Line_name Line Number e.g. LW200.1:12

Lon Longitude WGS 1984, for processing see readme

Lat Latitude WGS 1984, for processing see readme

x x projected meters*

y y projected meters*

Height_WGS1984 Aircraft altitude (meters) in WGS 1984, for processing see location data page

Raw gravity Channels

ST Spring Tension (meter units)

CC Cross Coupling (meter units)

RB Raw beam position (Mv)

XACC Cross axis accelerometer (Mv)

LACC Long axis accelerometer (Mv)

Still Airborne meter still reading value (mGal)

Base Absolute gravity reference, from land gravity (mGal)

Calculation Channels

St_real True Spring tension value (meter units)

Beam_vel Gravity meter beam velocity (Mv/sec)

Rec_grav Recalculated relative gravity (mGal)

Abs_grav Calculated absolute gravity (mGal)

VaccCor Vertical acceleration correction

EotvosCor Eotvos correction

LatCor Latitude correction

FaCor Free air correction

HaccCor Horizontal acceleration correction

Free air Channels

Faa Un-filtered free air anomaly

FAAup Upward continued free air anomaly to altitude 2800 m

*Projected coordinates (x and y) are in Polar stereographic defined as follows:

Latitude of natural origin: -71

Longitude of natural origin: 0

Scale factor at natural origin -75.33333333333

False easting 0

False northing 2...(4)