Ice thickness data from the upper Fedchenko Glacier, Pamir, measured by ground penetrating radar in 2016

• Main Authors: Lambrecht, Astrid, Mayer, Christoph
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: ELEVATION; Fedchenko Glacier; Fedtschenko_Glacier; ice thickness; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MULT; Multiple investigations; Pamir; UTM Easting; Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Northing; UTM Zone; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.910160; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.910160

The most extensive glacier system in the Pamir Mountains is Fedchenko Glacier in Tajikistan. Fedchenko Glacier covers an area of 745 km² (Lambrecht and others, 2014) and extends over a total length of 72 km. Ice thickness was determined from almost 30 km of low frequency radar data in the upper accu...