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BoulderCO80309-0449USAEARTH SCIENCECRYOSPHEREGLACIERS/ICE SHEETSGLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION EARTH SCIENCECRYOSPHEREGLACIERS/ICE SHEETSGLACIER THICKNESS/ICE SHEET THICKNESS Climatology/Meteorology/AtmosphereIB Radar-projectIceBridgeIceBridge-projectIce ThicknessNASANSIDCNSIDC DAACRadar Echo SoundersSurface ElevationMCoRDSMultichannel Coherent Radar Depth SounderBT-67Basler BT-67C-130Lockheed C-130 HerculesDC-8DC-8G-VGulfstream VNASA DC-8NASA Douglas DC-8NOAA Twin OtterNOAA De Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin OtterP-3BLockheed P-3B OrionWP-3D ORIONLockheed WP-3D Orion2009-10-162019-11-20complete-90-57-1801805983.1-100.228.5CONTINENTNORTH AMERICAGREENLANDCONTINENTANTARCTICAVariesVariesVariesThese data are freely, openly, and fully accessible, provided that you are logged into your NASA Earthdata profile (https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/).These data are freely, openly, and fully available to use without restrictions, provided that you cite the data according to the recommended citation at https://nsidc.org/about/data-use-and-copyright. For more information on the NASA ESDIS Data Use Guidance, see https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-software-policies/data-use-guidance.EnglishUKS/CRESISNASA NSIDC DAACNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Centerhttps://nsidc.org/daacData Center ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1-303-492-6199
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BoulderCO80309-0449USAHTTPSCSVAkins, Torry Lee. 1999. Design and development of an improved data acquisition system for the coherent radar depth sounder, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Master's Thesis, University of Kansas. Allen, Christopher, Lei Shi, Richard Hale, Carl Leuschen, John Paden, Benjamin Panzer, Emily Arnold, William Blake, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, John Ledford, Sarah Seguin. 2011. Antarctic Ice Depth Sounding Radar Instrumentation for the NASA DC-8, submitted for publication to IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, August 2011. Blake, W., J. Ledford, C. Allen, C. Leuschen, S. Gogineni, F. Rodriguez-Morales, Lei Shi. 2008. A VHF Radar for Deployment on a UAV for Basal Imaging of Polar Ice. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International, 4: IV-498-IV-501, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779767. Byers, K. J. 2011. 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An Improved Coherent Radar Depth Sounder, Journal of Glaciology 44(148): 659-669. Gogineni, S., D. Tammana, D. Braaten, C. Leuschen, T. Akins, J. Legarsky, P. Kanagaratnam, J. Stiles, C. Allen, and K. Jezek. 2001. Coherent Radar Ice Thickness Measurements Over the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 106(D24): 33761-33772. Lei Shi; C. T. Allen, J.R. Ledford, F. Rodriguez-Morales, W. A. Blake, B. G. Panzer, S. C. Prokopiack, C. J. Leuschen, and S. Gogineni. 2010. Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder for NASA Operation Ice Bridge, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), IEEE International, (1729-1732), doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5649518. Leuschen, Carl, Chris Allen, Prasad Gogineni, Fernando Rodriguez, John Paden, and Jilu Li. 2011, updated current year. IceBridge Snow Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles, [list dates of data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Leuschen, Carl, and Chris Allen. 2010, updated current year. IceBridge MCoRDS L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles, [list dates of data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.. Leuschen, Carl, Chris Allen, Prasad Gogineni, Fernando Rodriguez, John Paden, and Jilu Li. 2011, updated current year. IceBridge MCoRDS L3 Gridded Ice Thickness, Surface, and Bottom, [list dates of data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Li, Jilu, John Paden, Carl Leuschen, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Richard Hale, Emily Arnold, Reid Crowe, Daniel Gomez-Garcia and Prasad Gogineni. 2011. High-Altitude Radar Measurements of Ice Thickness over the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets as a part of Operation Ice Bridge, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, September 2011. Namburi, S. P. V. 2003. Design and Development of an Advanced Coherent Radar Depth Sounder, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master's Thesis, University of Kansas. Paden, John, Christopher Allen, Sivaprasad Gogineni, Kenneth Jezek, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, and Lars Larsen. 2005. Wideband measurements of ice sheet attenuation and basal scattering, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, (2)2. Paden, J. 2006. Synthetic Aperture Radar for Imaging the Basal Conditions of the Polar Ice Sheets, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas. Paden, J., T. Akins, D. Dunson, C. Allen, and P. Gogineni. 2010. Ice-sheet bed 3-D tomography, Journal of Glaciology 56(195): 3-11. Player, K., Lei Shi, Chris Allen, Carl Leuschen, John Ledford, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, William Blake, Ben Panzer, and Sarah Seguin. 2010. A Multi-Channel Depth-Sounding Radar with an Improved Power Amplifier, High-Frequency Electronics, October 2010: 18-29. Rodriguez-Morales, F., P. Gogineni, C. Leuschen, C. T. Allen, C. Lewis, A. Patel, L. Shi, W. Blake, B. Panzer, K. Byers, R. Crowe, L. Smith, and C. Gifford. 2010. Development of a Multi-Frequency Airborne Radar Instrumentation Package for Ice Sheet Mapping and Imaging, Proc. 2010 IEEE Int. Microwave Symp., Anaheim, CA, 2010: 157 – 160. Shi, Lei, C.T. Allen, J.R. Ledford, F. Rodriguez-Morales, W.A. Blake, B.G. Panzer, S.C. Prokopiack, C.J. Leuschen, and S. Gogineni. 2010. Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder for NASA Operation Ice Bridge, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International, 25-30 July 2010: 1729-1732. This data set contains depth sounder measurements of ice elevation, ice surface, ice bottom, and ice thickness for Greenland and Antarctica taken from the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS). The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.VIEW RELATED INFORMATIONhttps://nsidc.org/sites/default/files/documents/user-guide/irmcr2-v001-userguide_0.pdfIceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness, Version 1 User GuideGET DATAhttps://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C3205167643-NSIDC_CPRDEarthdata SearchGET DATAhttps://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C3205167643-NSIDC_CPRDHTTPSGET DATAhttps://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/IRMCR2/versions/1/Data Access ToolGET DATAhttps://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/stable/earthaccessCEOS IDN DIFVERSION 9.92010-07-202026-03-03NSIDCVersion SummaryInitial releaseNSIDCMinor Version1On 12 April 2011, the 2009 Antarctica MCoRDS data were replaced by Version 1.1. The original 2009 Antarctica data were processed through a temporary process with quick look data products only. Version 1.1 data are produced from full Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing. 2009-10-162009-11-1802On 17 October 2011, the MCoRDS L2 data were replaced by Version 1.2. The csv_good and CSARP_layer data were removed from the previous version.2009-10-162010-11-200NSIDCUpdate Frequencyupdated 2021NSIDCCurrent Version1NSIDCLevel of ServiceStandardNSIDCFull Dataset CitationPaden, J., Li, J., Leuschen, C., Rodriguez-Morales, F. & Hale, R. (2010). <i>IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness</i>. (IRMCR2, Version 1). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5067/GDQ0CUCVTE2Q">https://doi.org/10.5067/GDQ0CUCVTE2Q</a>. 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