Rutford Ice Stream bed elevation DEM from radar data ...

We present a digital elevation model of the bed of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica derived from radio-echo sounding data. The data cover an 18 x 40 km area immediately upstream of the grounding line of the ice stream. This area is of particular interest because repeated seismic surveys have shown tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: King, E.C, Pritchard, H.D, Smith, A.M
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre 2015
Subjects:
"EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES","MODELS","DIGITAL ELEVATION/DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS"
"EARTH SCIENCE","CLIMATE INDICATORS","CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS","GLACIAL MEASUREMENTS","GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION"
Rutford
Rutford Ice Stream
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/54757cbe-0b13-4385-8b31-4dfaa1dab55e
https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00813
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Summary:We present a digital elevation model of the bed of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica derived from radio-echo sounding data. The data cover an 18 x 40 km area immediately upstream of the grounding line of the ice stream. This area is of particular interest because repeated seismic surveys have shown that rapid erosion and deposition of subglacial sediments has taken place. The bed topography shows a range of different subglacial landforms including mega-scale glacial lineations, drumlins and hummocks. This dataset will form a baseline survey which, when compared to future surveys, should reveal how active subglacial landscapes change over time. The dataset comprises observed ice thickness data, an interpolated bed elevation grid, observed surface elevation data and a surface elevation grid. ... : Rutford_DEM_data_description.doc bed_WGS84_grid.txt ice_thickness_x_y_t.txt surface_elevation_x_y_z.txt surface_WGS84_grid.txt ...

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