NSIDC-0518Subglacial water flow paths under Thwaites Glacier, West AntarcticaCarter, S. P., D. A. Young, and D. D. BlankenshipSubglacial water flow paths under Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica2012-05-21Boulder, Colorado USANSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center1false10.7265/N5RJ4GC8https://doi.org/10.7265/N5RJ4GC8NSIDC-0518InvestigatorSashaP.Carterspcarter@ucsd.edu9500 Gilman DriveMail Code: 0225La JollaCA92093USInvestigatorDuncanA.YoungJ.J. Pickle Research CampusBldg. 19610100 Burnet Road (R2200)Austin, TX 78758-4445AustinTexas78758-4445USAInvestigatorDonaldD.Blankenshipblank@ig.utexas.edu4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600AustinTX78759-8500USATechnical ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1-303-492-61991-303-492-2468CIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USAEARTH SCIENCECryosphereGlaciers/Ice SheetsGlacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATIONEARTH SCIENCECryosphereGlaciers/Ice SheetsGlacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness GLACIER THICKNESS/ICE SHEET THICKNESSEARTH SCIENCECryosphereGlaciers/Ice SheetsGlacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography GLACIER TOPOGRAPHY/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHYClimatology/Meteorology/AtmosphereAGDC-projectAirborne geophysical survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA)Airborne Radar Soundingbed elevationsGlacierHydrologyIce Penetrating RadarIce Sheet ElevationsubglacialThwaites GlacierWest Antarctic Ice SheetRADARRadio Detection and RangingAIRCRAFT2004-12-072005-01-31complete-80-75-120-90ContinentAntarcticaGeographic RegionPolarEnglishUTX-AUSTIN/IGFTP125 KBPDFFTP48 KBASCIIhttp://nsidc.org/data/docs/agdc/nsidc0518-carter/images/sample-map.pngSample Flow Paths MapImage: Carter, S. P. et. al., 2012http://nsidc.org/data/docs/agdc/nsidc0518-carter/images/sample-map.pngWater flow paths beneath Thwaites Glacier (Carter et al., 2012)Map of water flow paths beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica (Carter et al., 2012).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.
Carter, S. P., H. A. Fricker, D. D. Blankenship, J. V. Johnson, W. H. Lipscomb, S. F. Price, and D. A. Young. 2011. Modeling Five Years of Subglacial Lake Activity in the MacAyeal Ice Stream (Antarctica) Catchment Through Assimilation of ICESat Laser Altimetry, Journal of Glaciology, 57(206), 1098-1112, 10.3189/002214311798843421.This data set contains subglacial water flow paths beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, interpreted from ice thickness and bed elevation measurements collected between 7 December 2004 and 31 January 2005 by the Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Embayment (AGASEA) expedition.VIEW RELATED INFORMATIONhttps://doi.org/10.7265/N5RJ4GC8DocumentationGET DATAhttp://www.usap-dc.org/view/dataset/609518Get External DataPROJECT HOME PAGEhttp://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/agasea/AGASEA Home PageCEOS IDN DIFVERSION 9.92012-05-212019-02-11NSIDCVersion SummaryNSIDCMinor VersionNSIDCCurrent Version1NSIDCFull Dataset Citation2012. <i>Subglacial water flow paths under Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.</i> [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. <a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/N5RJ4GC8">https://doi.org/10.7265/N5RJ4GC8</a>. [Date Accessed].NSIDCRetiredfalse