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Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Pine Island Glacier basin (2004/05 season)

During the austral summer of 2004/05 a collaborative US/UK field campaign undertook a systematic geophysical survey of the entire Amundsen Sea embayment using comparable airborne survey systems mounted in Twin Otter aircraft. Here we present the portion of the survey covering the Pine Island Glacier basin led by British Antarctic Survey. Operating from a temporary field camp (PNE, S 77deg34' W 095deg56'); we collected ~35,000 km of airborne survey data. Our aircraft was equipped with dual-frequency carrier-phase GPS for navigation, radar altimeter for surface mapping, wing-tip magnetometers, gravity meter, and a new ice-sounding radar system (PASIN). We present here the bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding collected using the BAS PASIN radar depth sounding system.



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Date (Creation)
2019-12-03
Date (Revision)
2019-12-03
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2019-12-03
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2019-12-03
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1.0

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https://doi.org/10.5285/3adb739a-9eda-434d-9883-03ab092cabae
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GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01269
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https://data.bas.ac.uk/

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Please cite this item as: Corr, H., Ferraccioli, F., & Vaughan, D. (2020). Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Pine Island Glacier basin (2004/05 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/3adb739a-9eda-434d-9883-03ab092cabae

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British Antarctic Survey

Corr, Hugh

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British Antarctic Survey Ferraccioli, Fausto Author
British Antarctic Survey Vaughan, David Author
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk

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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
Theme
  • Antarctic

  • aerogeophysics

  • ice thickness

  • radar

  • surface elevation

Place
  • The Pine Island Glacier basin Antarctica

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Elevation
  • Meteorological geographical features
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Corr, H., Ferraccioli, F., & Vaughan, D. (2020). Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the Pine Island Glacier basin (2004/05 season) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/3ADB739A-9EDA-434D-9883-03AB092CABAE





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2004-12-11
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2005-01-21
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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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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12
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European Petroleum Survey Group

EPSGadministrator@iogp.org

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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
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6.18.3

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NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk

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Methodology:

Radar data and details of survey location and design are presented in Vaughan et al. (2006). Radar data were collected using the PASIN radar echo sounding system (table 1 (Corr et al., 2007)). Data provided here includes picks of surface and ice sheet bed elevation.



Surface elevation is derived from radar altimeter for ground clearance < 750 m, and the PASIN system for higher altitudes.





Note in the database split by line the sections are defined as follows L= main survey grid lines, T=main survey grid lines, P=long transits, D=turns.





Channel description:



Basic Channels



Date UTC date (YYYY/MM/DD)



Time UTC time (HH:MM:SS.SS)



FlightID Sequential flight number and survey ID e.g. W12



Line_name Line Number e.g. LW200.1



Lon Longitude WGS 1984



Lat Latitude WGS 1984



x x projected meters*



y y projected meters*



Height_WGS1984 Aircraft altitude (meters) in WGS 1984





Radar



segy_name Radar_segy file name



TraceNum Radar segy trace number



PriNum Raw radar time



surfPickLoc Location down trace of surface pick



bedPickLoc Location down trace of bed elevation pick



surfElev Surface elevation (m)



bedElev Picked ice bed elevation (m)



tIce Ice thickness, derived from bedPickLoc and surfPickLoc (m).





* Projected coordinates (x and y) are in Polar Stereographic defined as follows:



Latitude of natural origin: -71



Longitude of natural origin: 0



Scale factor at natural origin 0.994



False easting 0



False northing 2082760.109

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NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk

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Keywords

Antarctic aerogeophysics ice thickness radar surface elevation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Elevation Meteorological geographical features
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness


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