Ice thickness along 750 km traverse route from Kohnen Station to JASE Meeting Point, Antarctica, based on JASE ground-based radar surveys ...

• Main Authors: Fujita, Shuji, Holmlund, Per
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Data archive System (ADS), Japan 2011
• Subjects: CRYOSPHERE>GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS>GLACIER THICKNESS/ICE SHEET THICKNESS; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Kohnen; Kohnen Station; Wasa; Wasa Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17592/001.2022072205; https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/dataset/A20220722-005

This dataset contains the ice thickness data recorded by ground-based radio echo sounding experiment carried out along a traverse route from Wasa Station in East Antarctica to the JASE Meeting point. The data were recorded in the joint Japanese-Swedish JASE traverse survey by NIPR (the 48th and 49th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE48 and JARE49)) and Stockholm University. PIs of the joint survey are Shuji Fujita (NIPR, Japan) and Per Holmlund (Stockholm University, Sweden). This data is for Swedish team's way-in to the meeting point. They used a pulse-modulated VHF radar sounder with a peak transmission power of 1 kW, a center frequency of 179 MHz and a transmitter pulse width of 250 ns. Position of sites are not accurate enough because of GPS problems. Nevertheless, we publish this set of data because the data are very precious in this region of Antarctica. In future, when more data with accurate positioning data are produced, this set of data should be replaced by newer and more reliable data ...