Processed airborne radio-echo sounding data from the FISS 2015 survey covering the Foundation Ice Stream, Bungenstock Ice Rise, and the Filchner Ice Shelf system, West Antarctica (2015/2016)

• Main Authors: Nicholls, Keith, Robinson, Carl, Corr, Hugh, Jordan, Tom
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre 2021
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER THICKNESS/ICE SHEET THICKNESS"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER TOPOGRAPHY/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHY"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS"; "EARTH SCIENCE","SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING","RADAR"; Antarctic; aerogeophysics; ice thickness; radar; surface elevation; Austral; West Antarctica; Filchner Ice Shelf; Foundation Ice Stream; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3507901f-d03e-45a6-8d9b-59cf98a03e1d; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01570

An airborne radar survey was flown during the austral summer of 2015/16 over the Foundation Ice Stream, Bungenstock Ice Rise, and the Filchner ice shelf as part of the 5-year Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS) project. This project was a NERC-funded (grant reference number: NE/L013770/1) collaborative...