Abstract:
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.
Data are provided as XYZ ASCII line data.
Keywords:
Antarctic, aerogeophysics, ice thickness, radar, surface elevation
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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| 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 | Mr Hugh Corr |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Fausto Ferraccioli |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Prof David Vaughan |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Vaughan, D.G., Corr, H.F.J., Ferraccioli, F., Frearson, N., O"Hare, A., Mach, D., Holt, J.W., Blankenship, D., Morse, D.L. & Young, D.A. 2006. New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: Subglacial topography beneath Pine Island Glacier. Geophysical Research Letters. 33. L09501, doi:10.1029/2005GL025588. | |
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| Lineage: | 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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| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2004-12-11 |
| End Date | 2005-01-21 |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -81.1 |
| Northernmost | -73.5 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -112.9 |
| Easternmost | -72.7 |
| 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 | The Pine Island Glacier basin |
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| Distribution: | |
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| Distribution Media | Online Internet (HTTP) |
| Distribution Size | 408 MB |
| Distribution Format | ASCII |
| Fees | N/A |
| Data Storage: | This dataset constains 1 ASCII XYZ file: - BBAS_Radar_ByFlight.XYZ ~408MB |