Radio echo and magnetic sounding of the Antarctic ice sheet, 1978–79

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Drewry, D. J., Meldrum, D. T., Jankowski, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1980
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Polar Record; Scott Polar Research Institute
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400002916; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400002916

During December 1978 the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) undertook its sixth and final season of long-range airborne radio echo sounding (RES) and magnetometry in Antarctica in cooperation with the US National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programmes (NSF-DPP) and the Electromagnetics Institute of the Technical University of Denmark (TUD). The 1978–79 season (DF–79) was part of a long-term programme of glaciological and geophysical investigation of the Antarctic ice sheet (Drewry and Meldrum 1978a; 1978b). The broad aims have been to extend a 100-km grid network over Antarctica for a study of surface form, thickness, internal structure, rheology, thermodynamics, electrical properties, basal conditions and processes, and sub-ice geology.