Abstract:
During the austral summer of 2001/02 five thousand line kilometres of airborne radio echo sounding and aeromagnetic data were collected in the region of three tributaries of Slessor Glacier, East Antarctica, which drains into the Filchner Ice Shelf. We present here the processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding acquired using the BAS aerogeophysicaly equipped Twin Otter aircraft.
Data are provided as XYZ ASCII line data. Data were collected as part of UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant GR3/AFI2/65
Keywords:
Antarctic, aerogeophysics, ice thickness, radar, surface elevation
Rippin, D., Bamber, J., Siegert, M., Vaughan, D., & Corr, H. (2020). Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding across the region of three tributaries of Slessor Glacier, Coats Land, East Antarctica (2001/02 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/c5175014-a056-4799-a8c0-65b5fc433743
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| Creation Date: | 2019-12-03 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | PDC BAS |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr David Rippin |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Name | Jonathan Bamber |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Name | Prof Martin Siegert |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol |
| Name | Prof David Vaughan |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Mr Hugh Corr |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Bamber, J.L., Ferraccioli, F., Joughin, I., Shepherd, T., Rippin, D.M., Siegert, M.J. and Vaughan, D.G (2006), East Antarctic ice stream tributary underlain by major sedimentary basin, Geology 34(1), 33-36; doi: 10.1130/G22160.1. Shepherd, T., Bamber, J.L., and F. Ferraccioli (2006), Subglacial geology in Coats Land, East Antarctica, revealed by airborne magnetics and radar sounding, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 244, 323-335. Rippin, D., Bamber, J.L., Siegert, M.J., Vaughan, D. And Corr, H.J (2003), Basal topography and ice flow in the Bailey/ Slessor region of East Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical research, 108, doi:10.1029/2003JF000039 Rippin, D., Bamber, J.L., Siegert, M., Vaughan, D and Corr, H (2006), Basal conditions beneath enhanced- flow tributaries of Slessor Glacier, East Antarctica , Journal of Glaciology, 52(179), 481?490. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756506781828467 Processing references: Rippin, D., Bamber, J.L., Siegert, M.J., Vaughan, D. And Corr, H.J. 2003. Basal topography and ice flow in the Bailey/ Slessor region of East Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical research, 108, doi:10.1029/2003JF000039 Rippin, D., Bamber, J.L., Siegert, M., Vaughan, D and Corr, H. 2006. Basal conditions beneath enhanced- flow tributaries of Slessor Glacier, East Antarctica , Journal of Glaciology, 52 (179), 481?490 |
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| Lineage: | Radar data are presented in Rippin et al. (2003, 2006) along with further details of survey design, data collection and data processing. Data provided here includes picks of surface and ice sheet bed elevation. Channel definitions: 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 Lon: Longitude WGS 1984 Lat: Latitude WGS 1984 x: x projected meters * y: y projected meters * Radar surfElev: Surface elevation (m) bedElev: Ice bed elevation, derived by subtracting tice from surfElev (m) tIce: Ice thickness (m) * Projected coordinates (x and y) are in Lambert conic conformal with two standard parallels defined as follows: Latitude of false origin: -74.018118 Longitude of false origin: 179 Latitude of 1st standard parallel -72.66666666667 Latitude of 2nd standard parallel -75.33333333333 False easting 1444000 False northing 1123000 |
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| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2001-12-15 |
| End Date | 2001-12-17 |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -80.3 |
| Northernmost | -77.4 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -15.1 |
| Easternmost | -3 |
| Altitude | |
| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Data Resolution: | |
| Latitude Resolution | N/A |
| Longitude Resolution | N/A |
| Horizontal Resolution Range | 30 meters - < 100 meters |
| Vertical Resolution | N/A |
| Vertical Resolution Range | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution Range | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | region of three tributaries of Slessor Glacier, East Antarctica |
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| Distribution: | |
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| Distribution Media | Online Internet (HTTP) |
| Distribution Size | 14 MB |
| Distribution Format | ASCII |
| Fees | N/A |
| Data Storage: | This dataset constains 1 ASCII XYZ file: - AFI_Radar_ByFlight.XYZ ~14MB |