RADAR ICE THICKNESS PROFILES NORTHWEST GREENLAND.

In June and July of 1964, extensive field trials of radar ice sounding equipment were held on the ice sheet in northwest Greenland. The results, in the form of profiles over 350 km of trail, made from seismic depth measurements along the Tuto-Century trail and Project 42 trails provide a good repres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rinker,J. N., Mock,S. J.
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1967
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
(*GLACIERS
THICKNESS)
(*GREENLAND
GLACIERS)
ICE
RADAR
TERRAIN
MEASUREMENT
DEPTH FINDING
Greenland
Ice
Ice Sheet
permafrost
Scott Polar Research Institute
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0654985
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0654985
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Summary:In June and July of 1964, extensive field trials of radar ice sounding equipment were held on the ice sheet in northwest Greenland. The results, in the form of profiles over 350 km of trail, made from seismic depth measurements along the Tuto-Century trail and Project 42 trails provide a good representation of surface and subsurface topography. A continuous trace of the ice/bedrock interface was obtained for over 97% of the route traveled, through ice up to 1400 meters thick. The film record obtained by the Scott Polar Research Institute, as a result of providing the Scott Polar Research radar set with continuously moving photographic film to record echo traces, shows a richness of detail (internal structure of the ice sheet) not portrayed by the manual plot. A sample of this film is given. References are made to project work of previous seasons. (Author)

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