NSIDC-0517
AGASEA Ice Thickness Profile Data from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica
Blankenship, D., and D. Young
AGASEA Ice Thickness Profile Data from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica
2012-05-032012
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0517.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5W95730
Investigator
Donald
D.
Blankenship
blank@ig.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin
Institute for Geophysics
4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600
Austin
TX
78759-8500
USA
Investigator
Duncan
A.
Young
University of Texas at Austin
Jackson School of Geosciences, Institute for Geophysics
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
Bldg. 196
10100 Burnet Road (R2200)
Austin, TX 78758-4445
Austin
Texas
78758-4445
USA
Investigator
John
W.
Holt
University of Texas at Austin
Institute for Geophysics
4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600
Austin
TX
78759-850
USA
Investigator
Scott
D.
Kempf
University of Texas at Austin
Institute for Geophysics
Jackson School of Geosciences,
J.J. Pickle Research Campus Bldg. 196
10100 Burnet Road (R2200)
Austin
Texas
78758-4445
USA
Technical Contact
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
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USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Ice Sheets
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Airborne geophysical survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA)
Airborne Radar Sounding
Antarctic Ice Sheet
Glacier
glaciers
GPS
Ice Penetrating Radar
Ice Sheet
Ice Sheet Thickness
Model Input Data
Thwaites Glacier
GPS
Global Positioning System
RADAR
Radio Detection and Ranging
AIRCRAFT
DHC-6
DeHavilland Twin Otter
2004-12-10
2005-01-29
-83
-73
-125
-90
CONTINENT
ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
POLAR
English
UTX-AUSTIN/IG
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
NSIDC_AGDC
NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center
http://nsidc.org/agdc/
Data Center Contact
NSIDC AGDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
FTP
71 MB
ASCII Text
Holt, J. W., D. D. Blankenship, D. L. Morse, D. A. Young, M. E. Peters, S. D. Kempf, T. G. Richter, D. G. Vaughan, and H. Corr. 2006. New Boundary Conditions for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Subglacial Topography of the Thwaites and Smith Glacier Catchments, Geophysical Research Letters, 33(L09502), 10.1029/2005GL025561.
Peters, M. E., D. D. Blankenship, S. P. Carter, D. A. Young, S. D. Kempf, and J. W. Holt. 2007. Along-Track Focusing of Airborne Radar Sounding Data from West Antarctica for Improving Basal Reflection Analysis and Layer Detection, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(9), 2725-2736, 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897416.
Peters, M. E., D. D. Blankenship, and D. L. Morse. 2005. Analysis Techniques for Coherent Airborne Radar Sounding: Application to West Antarctic Ice Streams, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(B06303), 10.1029/2004JB003222.
This data set contains line-based radar-derived ice thickness and bed elevation data, collected as part of the Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Embayment (AGASEA) expedition, which took place over Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica from 2004 to 2005. The data set includes ice thickness, ice sheet bed elevation, and ice sheet surface elevation, derived from ice-penetrating radar and aircraft GPS positions. The data are spaced on a 15 km by 15 km grid over the entire catchment of the glacier, and sampled at approximately 15 meters along track. Most of the radar data used for this dataset has been processed using a 1-D focusing algorithm, to reduce the along track resolution to tens of meters, to improve boundary conditions for ice sheet models.
Data are available via FTP in space-delimited ASCII format.
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2012-05-03
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