Kongsvegen, Svalbard: late quiescent-stage glacier geometry and dynamics

• Main Authors: Luckman, Adrian, Kohler, Jack, Benn, Douglas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation 2020
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER MOTION/ICE SHEET MOTION"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER TOPOGRAPHY/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHY"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIERS"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","SNOW/ICE","ICE VELOCITY"; Kongsvegen; Svalbard; glacier; surge; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/8f94782a-87a1-4e54-a911-89aee1f15aea; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01334

This dataset consists of a bed DEM and four velocity maps of Kongsvegen, a surge-type glacier in Svalbard. The bed DEM was generated from ground-penetrating radar surveys in spring 2016 and 2018, and the velocity maps span the period Dec 2017 to Feb 2019. The velocity maps show the initial speed-up...