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Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Institute and Moller Glacier catchments in 2010/11

During the 2010/2011 Antarctic field season a collaborative NERC AFI (Antarctic Funding Initiative) project studying the basal boundary conditions of the Institute & Moller ice streams, West Antarctica, collected ~25,000 km of new high quality aerogeophysics data. Data were acquired using the BAS PASIN depth sounding radar mounted in the BAS aerogeophysically equipped Twin Otter "Bravo Lima".

Data are provided as XYZ ASCII line data.

Data were collected as part of the UK Natural Environment Research Council AFI grant NE/G013071/1.

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2019-11-25
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2019-11-25
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2019-11-25
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2019-11-25
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Please cite this item as: Ross, N., Corr, H., Bingham, R., Ferraccioli, F., Jordan, T., Le Brocq, A., Rippin, D., & Siegert, M. (2020). Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Institute and Moller Glacier catchments in 2010/11 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/7946c497-72fc-41cb-a9b2-bf9980efe156
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  Newcastle University - Ross, Neil ( Researcher )
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  British Antarctic Survey - Corr, Hugh ( Researcher )
Author
  University of Aberdeen - Bingham, Robert ( Researcher )
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Ferraccioli, Fausto ( Researcher )
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Jordan, Tom ( Researcher )
Author
  Exeter University - Le Brocq, Anne ( Researcher )
Author
  University of York - Rippin, David ( Researcher )
Author
  Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol - Siegert, Martin ( Researcher )
Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Theme
  • Antarctic
  • aerogeophysical
  • ice thickness
  • radar
  • surface elevation
Place
  • The Institute and Moller Glacier Antarctica
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Meteorological geographical features
  • Elevation
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1. To cite the data in any publication as follows:

Ross, N., Corr, H., Bingham, R., Ferraccioli, F., Jordan, T., Le Brocq, A., Rippin, D., & Siegert, M. (2020). Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Institute and Moller Glacier catchments in 2010/11 [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/7946C497-72FC-41CB-A9B2-BF9980EFE156

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data. Use of the data is at the users' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

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Begin date
2010-12-20
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2011-01-09
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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.
Date (Publication)
2008-11-12
Publisher
  European Petroleum Survey Group
https://www.epsg-registry.org/
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
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6.18.3

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  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Methodology:

Radar data and details of survey design and location are presented in Ross et al. (2012). Radar data were collected using the PASIN radar echo sounding system (table 1 (Corr et al., 2007)). Data provided here includes picks of surface and ice sheet bed elevation. Note a single flight may contain data from two or more SEGY files, identified in the SEGYname channel. Surface elevation is derived from radar altimeter for ground clearance < 750 m, and the PASIN system for higher altitudes. Full channel name definition is given in the description below. Note the ice thickness over regions of thinner ice was independently picked a second time with different processing parameters. This additional ice thickness data is also available.

In the database split by line the sections are defined as follows L= main survey grid lines, T=main survey grid lines, P=long transits, D=turns.

Name Description

Date UTC date (YYYY/MM/DD)

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

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

Line_no Line Number e.g. LW200.1

Lon Longitude WGS 1984

Lat Latitude WGS 1984

x x projected meters *

y y projected meters *

Height_WGS1984 Aircraft altitude (meters) in WGS 1984

segy_name Radar_segy file name.

TraceNum Radar segy trace number.

PriNum Raw radar time.

surfPickLoc Location down trace of surface pick.

bedPickLoc Location down trace of bed elevation pick.

botPickLoc_thin Location down trace of bed elevation pick for thin ice.

surfElev Surface elevation (m)

bedElev_thin Ice bed elevation for thin ice bed pick (m)

bedElev Ice bed elevation, derived by subtracting tice from surfElev (m)

Bed_merge A merge of bedElev and bedElev_thin (m)

tIce Ice thickness, derived from bedPickLoc and surfPickLoc. (m)

tice_thin Ice thickness in regions of thin ice (m)

* Projected coordinates (x and y) are in Lambert conic conformal with two standard parallels defined as follows:

Latitude of false origin: -82

Longitude of false origin: -14

Latitude of 1st standard parallel -84

Latitude of 2nd standard parallel -80

False easting 2000000

False northing 2000000

Data collection:

Radar data were collected using the PASIN radar echo sounding system (table 1 (Corr et al., 2007)).

Data quality:

Data collected with 7.5 km line spacing

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Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
 
 

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Antarctic aerogeophysical ice thickness radar surface elevation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Elevation Meteorological geographical features
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness

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