Fifty-five years of Russian radio-echo sounding investigations in Antarctica

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Author: Sergey Popov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Subjects: Airborne electromagnetic soundings; crevasses; ground-penetrating radar; ice thickness measurements; Antarctic glaciology; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Antarctic; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Ronne Ice Shelf; Lake Vostok; Lambert Glacier; Mirny Station; Mirny; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.4; https://doaj.org/article/f913989a5c084b53bd4b2c4596783952

Russian (former Soviet) systematic studies of Antarctica by radio-echo sounding (RES) and ground-penetrating radar technique (GPR) were commenced in 1964. Since that time airborne RES surveys have covered about 5.5 × 106 km2 of the icy continent discovering remarkable geographic objects such as Subg...