Characterizing near-surface firn using the scattered signal component of the glacier surface return from airborne radio-echo sounding

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Rutishauser, Anja, Grima, Cyril, Sharp, Martin, Blankenship, Donald D., Young, Duncan A., Cawkwell, Fiona, Dowdeswell, Julian A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2016
• Subjects: Scattering signal component; Radio-echo sounding; Firn characterization; Glaciology; Instruments and techniques; Glaciers; Ice sheets; glacier*; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/4085; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071230

We derive the scattered component (hereafter referred to as the incoherent component) of glacier surface echoes from airborne radio-echo sounding measurements over Devon Ice Cap, Arctic Canada, and compare the scattering distribution to firn stratigraphy observations from ground-based radar data. Lo...