Antarctic Active Subglacial Lake Inventory from ICESat Altimetry

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...

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Bibliographic Details
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
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Summary: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 data are provided in Keyhole Markup Language (KML), comma-separated values (CSV), and GEOTiff formats.

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