Measured ice surface velocities on the King George Island ice cap with DGPS

• Main Authors: Rückamp, Martin, Blindow, Norbert, Suckro, Sonja K, Braun, Matthias Holger, Humbert, Angelika
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: ELEVATION; Ice-flow direction; King_George_Island; King George Island; Antarctic Peninsula; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; SPP1158; UTM Easting; Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Northing; UTM Zone; Velocity magnitude; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctic; Ice cap; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.773310; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.773310

King George Island is located at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is influenced by maritime climate conditions. The observed mean annual air temperature at sea level is -2.4°C. Thus, the ice cap is regarded as sensitive to changing climatic conditions. Ground-penetrating radar surv...