Large scale air-borne sea ice thickness measurements

• Other Authors: LIESER, JAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), LIESER, JAN (processor), WORBY, ANTHONY PETER (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WORBY, ANTHONY PETER (processor), STEER, ADAM (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STEER, ADAM (processor), MASSOM, ROB (processor), HACKER, JOERG (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: oceans; ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS; EARTH SCIENCE; CRYOSPHERE; SEA ICE; ICE ROUGHNESS; REFLECTED INFRARED; SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; SEA ICE ELEVATION; Laser Scanner; Fast Ice; Freeboard; Infrared backscatter; LIDAR > Light Detection and Ranging; HELICOPTER; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/large-scale-air-thickness-measurements/700114; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/577362855FC6D; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_3030; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Data from ASAC project 3030. Public summary for the project: This project will measure the sea ice thickness off East Antarctica, over spatial scales up to hundreds of kilometers. Sea ice is a likely sensitive indicator of climate variations and change. No large scale sea ice thickness measurements exist in the Antarctic. An estimation of trends of change in Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume is therefore not currently possible. To address this deficiency and to provide an independent data set for the validation of models and the calibration of remote-sensing data, we will conduct high accuracy air borne laser scanner measurements in the sea ice zone off East Antarctica. More information about the project can be found in lidar.pdf (which is available with the data).