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Title: NSF COLDEX Ice Penetrating Radar Derived Grids of the Southern Flank of Dome A:Subtitle
<p>NSF COLDEX performed two airborne campaigns from South Pole Station over the Southern Flank of Dome A and 2022-23 and 2023-24, searching for a potential site of a continuous ice core that could sample the mid-Pleistocene transition. Ice thickness data extracted from the MARFA radar system has allow for a new understanding of this region.</p> <p>Here we generate crustal scale maps of ice thickness, bed elevation, specularity content, subglacial RMS deviation and fractional basal ice thickness with 1 km sampling, and 10 km resolution. We include both masked and unmasked grids.</p> <p> The projection is in the SCAR standard ESPG:3031 polar stereographic projection with true scale at 71˚S.</p> <p>These geotiffs were generated using performed using GMT6.5 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008515">Wessel et al., 2019</a>) using the pygmt interface, by binning the raw data to 2.5 km cells, and using the <a href="https://github.com/sakov/nn-c"> nnbathy </a> program to apply natural neighbor interpolation to 1 km sampling. A 10 km Gaussian filter - representing typical lines spacings - was applied and then a mask was applied for all locations where the nearest data point was further than 8 km. </p> Ice thickness, bed elevation and RMS deviation @ 400 m length scale (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000JE001429">roughness</a>) data includes the following datasets: <ul> <li> UTIG/CRESIS <a href="https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/J38CO5">NSF COLDEX Airborne MARFA data</a></li> <li> British Antarctic Survey <a href="https://doi.org/10.5285/0f6f5a45-d8af-4511-a264-b0b35ee34af6">AGAP-North</a></li> <li> LDEO <a href="https://doi.org/10.1594/IEDA/317765"> AGAP-South </a></li> <li> British Antarctic Survey <a href="https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-8ffoo3e">Polargap</a></li> <li> UTIG Support Office for Airborne Research <a href="https://doi.org/10.15784/601588">Pensacola-Pole Transect (PPT) </a></li> <li> NASA/CReSIS <a href="https://doi.org/10.5067/GDQ0CUCVTE2Q"> 2016 and 2018 Operation Ice Bridge </a> </li> <li> ICECAP/PRIC <a href="https://doi.org/10.15784/601437"> SPICECAP Titan Dome Survey </a> </ul> <p>Specularity content (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2014.2337878">Schroeder et al. 2014</a>) is compiled from <a href="https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/KHUT1U"> Young et al. 2025a </a> and <a href="https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/6T5JS6"> Young et al. 2025b</a>.</p> <p>Basal ice fractional thickness is complied from manual interpretation by Vega Gonzàlez, Yan and Singh. </p> <p>Code to generated these grids can be found at <a href="https://github.com/smudog/COLDEX_dichotomy_paper_2025"> at github.com </a></p>  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2019719
PAR ID:
10608392
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Texas Data Repository
Date Published:
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Earth and Environmental Sciences ice penetraing radar Antarctica radioglaciology ice sheet
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Medium: X Size: 575165; 4817112; 4817112; 4816810; 4816810; 4817112; 4817112; 2283471; 570672; 4816810; 4816810; 1364643; 2379379; 4816810; 4817112 Other: image/png; image/tiff; image/tiff; image/tiff; image/tiff; image/tiff; image/tiff; image/png; image/png; image/tiff; image/tiff; image/png; image/png; image/tiff; image/tiff
Size(s):
575165 4817112 4817112 4816810 4816810 4817112 4817112 2283471 570672 4816810 4816810 1364643 2379379 4816810 4817112
Location:
Antarctica; (East Bound Longitude:66.8; North Bound Latitude:-83; South Bound Latitude:-90; West Bound Longitude:-161.5)
Right(s):
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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