Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: Frémand, AC, Fretwell, P, Bodart, JA, Pritchard, HD, Aitken, A, Bamber, JL, Bell, R, Bianchi, C, Bingham, RG, Blankenship, DD, Casassa, G, Catania, G, Christianson, K, Conway, H, Corr, HFJ, Cui, X, Damaske, D, Damm, V, Drews, R, Eagles, G, Eisen, O, Eisermann, H, Ferraccioli, F, Field, E, Forsberg, R, Franke, S, Fujita, S, Gim, Y, Goel, V, Gogineni, SP, Greenbaum, J, Hills, B, Hindmarsh, RCA, Hoffman, AO, Holmlund, P, Holschuh, N, Holt, JW, Horlings, AN, Humbert, A, Jacobel, RW, Jansen, D, Jenkins, A, Jokat, W, Jordan, T, King, E, Kohler, J, Krabill, W, Kusk Gillespie, M, Langley, K, Lee, J, Leitchenkov, G, Leuschen, C, Luyendyk, B, Macgregor, J, Mackie, E, Matsuoka, K, Morlighem, M, Mouginot, J, Nitsche, FO, Nogi, Y, Nost, OA, Paden, J, Pattyn, F, Popov, SV, Rignot, E, Rippin, DM, Rivera, A, Roberts, J, Ross, N, Ruppel, A, Schroeder, DM, Siegert, MJ, Smith, AM, Steinhage, D, Studinger, M, Sun, B, Tabacco, I, Tinto, K, Urbini, S, Vaughan, D, Welch, BC, Wilson, DS, Young, DA, Zirizzotti, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Breen; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/134602; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2695-2023

This is the final version. Available on open access from Copernicus Publications via the DOI in this record Data availability All the data included in this paper are freely available from the UK Polar Data Centre (https://data.bas.ac.uk, last access: 1 March 2023) and the SCAR Bedmap Data Portal (https://bedmap.scar.org, last access: 1 March 2023). BEDMAP1: https://doi.org/jg6q (Lythe et al., 2022a); https://doi.org/jg6s (Lythe et al., 2022b); https://doi.org/j2vz (Lythe et al., 2023). BEDMAP2: https://doi.org/jg6r (Fretwell et al., 2022a); https://doi.org/jg6t (Fretwell et al., 2022b); https://doi.org/jg6p (Fretwell et al., 2022c). BEDMAP3: https://doi.org/jg6n (Fremand et al., 2022b); https://doi.org/jg8b (Fremand et al., 2022c). The data can be downloaded directly from the RAMADDA interface by clicking on the “GET DATA” link from the metadata page or using wget commands as documented in the following instructions: https://antarctica.github.io/PDC_GeophysicsBook/BEDMAP/Downloading_the_Bedmap_data.html (last access: 1 March 2023, UK Polar Data Centre, 2023b). When using these data, please also cite the DOI citation provided in the source CSV metadata if this exists. Code availability: The user guide for the data portal and the Jupyter Notebook tutorials designed for reading the standardized CSV ice bed, elevation, and thickness data or creating the shapefiles are accessible on the Jupyter Book interface in the BEDMAP3 section (https://antarctica.github.io/PDC_GeophysicsBook, last access: 1 March 2023, UK Polar Data Centre, 2023a) or via the BAS GitHub repository (https://github.com/antarctica/PDC_GeophysicsBook, last access: 1 March 2023; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7821671, Fremand, 2023). A specific library called xcsv (https://github.com/paul-breen/xcsv, last access: 1 March 2023, Breen, 2023, last access: 1 March 2023) allows one to read and plot data in the extended CSV format as described in Section 3.2. One of the key components of this research has been the mapping of Antarctic bed ...