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BEDMAP1 - Ice thickness, bed and surface elevation for Antarctica - gridding products
We present here BEDMAP1 (2000-2001), a suite of gridded products describing surface elevation, ice-thickness and the sea floor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60deg S. The suite includes grids representing:
- ice-sheet thickness over the ice sheet and shelves,
- bed elevation beneath the grounded ice sheet,
- bathymetry to 60 degrees South including the areas beneath the ice shelves.
These grids are consistent with a high-resolution surface elevation model of Antarctica. While the digital models have a nominal spatial resolution of 5 km, such high resolution is not strictly justified by the original data density over all parts of the ice sheet. The suite does however provide an unparalleled vision of the geosphere beneath the ice sheet and a more reliable basis for ice sheet modelling. The bed elevation DEM, which includes the entire geosphere south of 60 degrees South, provides an improved delineation of the boundary between East and West Antarctica and sheds new light on the morphology of the contiguous East Antarctic landmass, much of which is buried below an average of 2500 m of ice.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2023-02-28
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-02-28
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-02-28
- Date (released)
- 2023-02-28
- Edition
- 1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/908bb17f-467c-42bf-ae00-f03bb0feea23
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- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01717
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: Lythe, M., Vaughan, D., & BEDMAP 1 Consortia. (2023). BEDMAP1 - Ice thickness, bed and surface elevation for Antarctica - gridding products (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/908BB17F-467C-42BF-AE00-F03BB0FEEA23
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- No credit.
- Status
- completed Completed
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
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- BEDMAP
- Elevation
- ice thickness
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- Antarctica
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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- This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/
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Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (), and the following conditions:
1. To cite the data and the Bedmap1 publication in any publication as follows:
REFERENCE:
Lythe, M. B. and Vaughan, D. G.: BEDMAP: A new ice thickness and subglacial topographic model of Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 106, 11335-11351, https://doi.org/10.1029/2000JB900449, 2001.
DATA:
Lythe, M., Vaughan, D., BEDMAP 1, consortia (2023). BEDMAP1 - Ice thickness, bed and surface elevation for Antarctica - gridding products (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre.
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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- Metadata language
- engEnglish
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- Elevation
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 1966-01-01
- End date
- 2000-12-31
- 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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Data collection:
The primary source data consist of survey point measurements of ice thickness, bed elevation and surface elevation, which principally comes from airborne radar surveys and seismic soundings, and to a smaller extent from ground-based radar surveys.
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- Date stamp
- 2023-02-28
- Metadata standard name
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- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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