Ice thickness from the coast of Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica), recorded 2018/19 with the AWI UWB radar system

• Main Authors: Franke, Steven, Jansen, Daniela, Drews, Reinhard, Eisen, Olaf
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: AC; Aircraft; Antarctica; AWI UWB; DATE/TIME; Dronning Maud Land; Event label; Flight number; ice rise; ice shelf; ice thickness; uncertainty; Ice Thickness Radar (EMR; MCoRDS); JuRaS - Jutulstraumen Radar Stratigraphy; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Number; P6_215_UWB_2018; P6_215_UWB_2018_1812311001; P6_215_UWB_2018_1901061201; P6_215_UWB_2018_1901061302; P6_215_UWB_2018_1901071401; POINT DISTANCE from start; POLAR 6; Profile; radio-echo sounding; Two-way traveltime; Jutulstraumen; Antarc*; DML; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.911868; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911868

Ice thickness from the coast of Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica), recorded 2018/19 with the AWI UWB radar system This project aims to acquire airborne data with AWI's UWB (ultrawideband) radar to investigate important aspects which define the dynamics of the sheet-shelf system in DML, Antarctica. This includes several ice rises, which serve as breaks for unhindered ice-shelf flow as well as a particular site just upstream of the grounding line, where strong interaction between a sediment-carrying, subglacial hydrological network, the ocean and the ice sheet are suspected. The data will lay the ground to constrain estimates of past ice flow and to understand stabilizing/destabilizing mechanisms in the most critical zone around Antarctica. The radar lines collected for this survey were mainly flown over ice shelves and ice rises, covering areas with an ice thickness ranging from several hundreds to about 1000 m. AWI Flight Campaign: P6-215_UWB_2018 Region: Coastal Dronning Maud Land Owner/PI: Reinhard Drews (University of Tübingen, GER) Contact of the data provider: [e-mail] Instrument used: AWI UWB (MCoRDS 5) Firn correction: none applied Velocity profile: dielectric constant of 3.15 ( c = 1.68914e8 m/s ) Method of navigation : GPS data was acquired by four NovAtel DL-V3 GPS receivers operating at 20Hz Ice Thickness uncertainty is the RMS of the the sum of the crossover mean of 29intersections (= 11.2 m) and the error of the dielectric (1%). sqrt( (crossover_mean)^2 + ( (-ice_thickness/2) * 0.01 )^2 )