Characterizing near-surface firn using the scattered signal component of the glacier surface return from airborne radio-echo sounding ...

• Main Authors: Rutishauser, A, Grima, C, Sharp, M, Blankenship, DD, Young, DA, Cawkwell, F, Dowdeswell, JA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: scattering signal component; radio-echo sounding; firn characterization; Arctic; Canada; Devon Ice Cap; glacier*; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.8201; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/262912

We derive the scattered component (hereafter referred to as the incoherent component) of glacier surface echoes from airborne radio-echo sounding measurements over Devon Ice Cap, Arctic Canada, and compare the scattering distribution to firn stratigraphy observations from ground-based radar data. Lo...