Snow thickness profiling on Antarctic sea-ice with GPR - rapid and accurate measurements with the potential to upscale needles to a haystack

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Pfaffhuber, AA, Lieser, JL, Haas, C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Geophysical Union 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; Physical geography and environmental geoscience not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Haystack; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074202; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/118752

Snow thickness on sea ice is a largely under-sampled parameter, yet of importance for the sea-ice mass balance and for satellite based sea-ice thickness estimates and thus our general understanding of global ice-volume change. Traditional direct thickness measurements with meter sticks can provide a...