Antarctic Active Subglacial Lake Inventory from ICESat Altimetry

• Main Authors: Fricker, Helen, Joughin, Ian, Smith, Ben, Tulaczyk, Slawek
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2012
• Subjects: Altimetry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Laser Altimetry; Glaciology; Icesat; Subglacial Lake; Antarctica; Antarctic; Keyhole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:7b259fe1066c2150b77ab701c331163fc8d1d9d742acf2d998e5034985a17f56

This data set contains lake boundaries, volume changes, and gridded elevations for 124 active subglacial lakes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Lakes were identified using laser altimetry data obtained from 2003 to 2009 by NASA's Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission. The da...