Surface mass balance in the last three centuries derived from microwave radar data collected in the Dome Fuji region

• Main Authors: Van Liefferinge, Brice, Taylor, Drew, Tsutaki, Shun, Fujita, Shuji, Gogineni, Prasad, Kawamura, Kenji, Matsuoka, Kenichi, Moholdt, Geir, Oyabu, Ikumi, Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Awasthi, Abhishek, Buizert, Christo, Gallet, Jean-Charles, Isaksson, Elisabeth, Motoyama, Hideaki, Nakazawa, Fumio, Ohno, Hiroshi, O'Neill, Charles, Pattyn, Frank, Sugiura, Kounosuke
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: npolar.no 2021
• Subjects: Dome Fuji; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21334/npolar.2021.72d5e781; https://data.npolar.no/dataset/72d5e781-2cbb-4004-a56c-dd38d507ed87

This dataset presents two-way travel time and corresponding depths of three reflectors extracted from microwave radar data and dated using a firn core in the vicinity of Dome Fuji, inland East Antarctica. These reflectors are in the top ~15 m of the firn, and dated 1941, 1923, and 1755 CE. Surface mass balance averaged between these years to 2019 is also presented. Radar data were collected at ~1.1 m intervals over ~1100 km in about 500 km2, which resulted in about 1 million data points. At each of radar data points, surface slope over 200 m horizontal distance is calculated using Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) and ICESat-2 altimetry data, which are also included in this dataset. [Publication] Van Liefferinge et al. (2021): Surface mass balance contrlled by local surface slope in inland Antarctica: implciations for ice-sheet mass balance and Oldest Ice delineation in Dome Fuji, Geophyscial Resarch Letters, in review. [Radar data] [https://doi.org/10.48707/e5ck-q886](https://doi.org/10.48707/e5ck-q886) [Ice core data] [https://doi.org/10.17592/001.2021102101](https://doi.org/10.17592/001.2021102101)