NSIDC-0496
Polarimetric Radar Data from the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice Flow Divide, West Antarctica
Matsuoka, K.
Polarimetric Radar Data from the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice Flow Divide, West Antarctica
2011-08-30
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0496.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5TH8JNG
Investigator
Kenichi
Matsuoka
matsuoka@ess.washington.edu
matsuoka@npolar.no
Norwegian Polar Institute
Fram Centre
Tromsø
NO-9296
Norway
Investigator
Donovan
Power
University of WAshington
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Box 351310
Seattle
Washington
98195
USA
Investigator
Shuji
Fujita
National Institute of Polar Research
Tokyo
Japan
Investigator
Charles
Raymond
University of Washington
University of Washington
Geophysics Program Box 351650
Seattle
WA
98195
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EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Ice Sheets
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Radar
Radar Imagery
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Ice Sheets
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Antarctica
Ice Penetrating Radar
Ice Sheet
Radar
Ross-Amundsen Divide
West Antarctica
RADAR
Radio Detection and Ranging
FIELD INVESTIGATION
2005-11-01
2007-01-31
complete
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-78.7489
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CONTINENT
ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
POLAR
English
UWA/ESS
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Boulder
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80309-0449
USA
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NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center
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Data Center Contact
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User Services
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University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
FTP
12.7 MB
MATLAB
Conway, Smith, Vaswani, Matsuoka, Rignot and Claus. 2009. A Low-Frequency Ice-Penetrating Radar System Adapted for Use from an Airplane: Test Results from Bering and Malaspina Glaciers, Alaska, USA. Annals of Glaciology, v.50, p. 93. Fujita, S., H. Maeno and K. Matsuoka. 2006. Radio Wave Depolarization and Scattering within Ice Sheets: A Matrix-Based Model to Link Radar and Ice Core Measurements and its Application. Journal of Glaciology, v.52, p. 407. Matsuoka, Wilen, Shawn, and Raymond. 2009. Effects of Birefringence within Ice Sheets on Obliquely Propagating Radio Waves. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v.47, p. 1429.
Matsuoka, K., D. Power, S. Fujita and C.Raymond. 2011. Polarimetric signatures of englacial radar returned power near the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice-Flow Divide (WAIS Divide), West Antarctica. In preparation.
This dataset contains ground-based, co-polarized radar data collected using pulse-modulated 60 MHz and 179 MHz radar at 19 sites around a deep ice coring site near the Ross and Amundsen flow divide of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS Divide). At each site, the radar data were collected at 12 orientations of the radar polarization plane for three radar pulse widths: 250 nsec, 500 nsec, and 1000 nsec. Useful signals were received from depths roughly between 200 m and 2000 m. Ice flow velocities and strain configurations were measured at most of these radar survey sites, and these ice motion data are also provided at NSIDC (GPS-Measured Ice Velocities and Strain Data from the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice Flow Divide, West Antarctica).
Data are available via FTP in MATLAB (.mat) format.
CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2011-08-30
2013-03-20
Added DOI