SVIFT - The Svalbard ice-free topography

• Main Author: Fürst, Johannes J.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2018
• Subjects: GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION; IMAGERYBASEMAPSEARTHCOVER; maps; environment; glaciology; remote-sensing; terrestrial; EARTH SCIENCE; CLIMATE INDICATORS; CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS; GLACIAL MEASUREMENTS; GLACIER/ICE SHEET THICKNESS; Glacier ice thickness; GLACIER/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHY; Glacier bedrock topography; LAND SURFACE; TOPOGRAPHY; CRYOSPHERE; GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS; GLACIERS; Arctic; Barentsøya; Edgeøya; Jan Mayen; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; glacier; Ice Sheet; Kvitøya; North Atlantic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/57fd0db4-afbf-4c94-ac1c-191c714f1224

We present an ice-free (bedrock) topography of the Svalbard archipelago based on a two-step mass-conserving approach for mapping glacier ice thickness. The Svalbard-wide application is presented in Fürst et al. (2018) and details of the mass-conserving reconstruction approach are specified in Fürst et al. (2017). For the thickness reconstruction more than one million individual measurements were considered. The map is provided together with an error-estimate field, which provides first spatial information on the reliability of the reconstruction.