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IPY: Collaborative Proposal: Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers
 Entry ID: Gogineni_0631994

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Summary
Abstract: This award supports a project to gather data to better understand the mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, in the Pine Island and Thwaites region, through the combination of radar altimetry and surface-based ice-core measurements of accumulation.

Purpose: The results of the field work will provide information on decadal-scale average accumulation extending back through the last century and will help constrain a modeling effort to determine how coastal changes propagate inland, to allow better prediction of future change. Comparison of the basin averaged accumulation with ice discharge determined using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) velocity data will provide improved mass-balance estimates. Study of changes in flow speed will produce a record of mass balance over the last three decades. Analysis of the satellite altimeter record in conjunction with annual accumulation estimates also will provide estimates of changes and variability in mass balance.

This data set contains airborne radar data over West Antarctica from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) 2009 Antarctica Twin Otter survey. The radar system is the accumulation radar (600-900 MHz stepped frequency pulse radar) and is designed to produce radar data which can be used to track internal layers in the ice sheet typically to a depth of a couple hundred meters. The dataset contains echograms in PNG and Mathworks MAT formats.

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Link: GET DATA > ON-LINE ARCHIVE
Description: Archive of data.


Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Description: CReSIS home page


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Description: NSF Award #0424589 Abstract


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Description: Data Description and Disclaimer


Geographic Coverage
 N: -74.0 S: -80.5  E: -88.0  W: -137.0
 Min Altitude: 500  Max Altitude: 500  Min Depth: 0  Max Depth: 500

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: Cameron Lewis, Prasad Gogineni, Carl Leuschen
Dataset Title: Accumulation Radar Data from West Antarctica (2009_Antarctica_TO)
Dataset Publisher: Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Data Presentation Form: Digital Media.


Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2009-12-24
Stop Date: 2010-01-19


Location Keywords
CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR


Science Keywords
CRYOSPHERE >GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS >ICE SHEETS    [Definition]
CRYOSPHERE >SNOW/ICE >SNOW ENERGY BALANCE    [Definition]
CRYOSPHERE >SNOW/ICE    [Definition]
CRYOSPHERE >GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS    [Definition]
CRYOSPHERE >GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS >ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES    [Definition]
CRYOSPHERE >GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS >GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE    [Definition]
CRYOSPHERE >GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS >GLACIER TOPOGRAPHY/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHY    [Definition]


ISO Topic Category
CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE


Platform
DHC-6 >DeHavilland Twin Otter    [Information]


Instrument
RADAR ECHO SOUNDERS


Project
NSF/OPP >Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation    [Information]
IPY >INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR    [Information]


Keywords
Antarctica
Antarctic
Pine Island
Thwaites Region
Remote Sensing
ice sheets
mass balance
accumulation
velocity
InSAR


Data Set Progress
IN WORK


Originating Center
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)


Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center    [Information]
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES
 Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
 City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA


NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center    [Information]
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/agdc/

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC AGDC USER SERVICES
 Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
 City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA


Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas    [Information]
Data Center URL: https://www.cresis.ku.edu/

Data Center Personnel
Name: JOHN PADEN
 Phone: (785) 864-1692
Email: paden at cresis.ku.edu
Contact Address:
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Nichols Hall, Room 325
2335 Irving Hill Rd
 City: Lawrence
Province or State: KS
Postal Code: 66044
Country: USA


Personnel
PRASAD GOGINENI
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (785) 864-7734
Fax: (785) 864-7753
Email: gogineni at cresis.ku.edu
Contact Address:
University of Kansas
Deptartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
3012 Eaton Hall
1520 West 15th Street
City: Lawrence
Province or State: Kansas
Postal Code: 66045-7621
Country: USA


IAN JOUGHIN
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 206-221-3177
Fax: 206-616-3142
Email: ian at apl.washington.edu
Contact Address:
Polar Science Center
Applied Physics Lab
University of Washington
1013 NE 40th Street
City: Seattle
Province or State: WA
Postal Code: 98105-6698
Country: USA


ERIC STEIG
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 206-685-3715
Fax: 206-543-3836
Email: steig at ess.washington.edu
Contact Address:
University of Washington
Johnson Hall Rm-070, Box 351310
4000 15th Avenue NE
City: Seattle
Province or State: WA
Postal Code: 98195-1310
Country: USA


SARAH DAS
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 508 289 2464
Email: sdas at whoi.edu
Contact Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
City: Woods Hole
Province or State: MA
Postal Code: 02543
Country: USA


JOHN PADEN
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: (785) 864-1692
Email: paden at cresis.ku.edu
Contact Address:
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Nichols Hall, Room 325
2335 Irving Hill Rd
City: Lawrence
Province or State: KS
Postal Code: 66044
Country: USA


Publications/References
F. Rodriguez-Morales, P. Gogineni, C. Leuschen, C. T. Allen, S. Seguin, J. Ledford, C. Lewis, A. Patel, L. Shi, W. Blake, B. Panzer, K. Byers, R. Crowe, L. Smith, C. Gifford, Development of a Multi-Frequency Airborne Radar Instrumentation Package for Ice Sheet Mapping and Imaging, Proc. 2010 IEEE Int. Microwave Symp., Anaheim, CA, pp. 157 – 160, May 2010.

Lewis, C.; Patel, A.; Owen, H.; Rodriguez-Morales, F.; Leuschen, C.; Seguin, S.A.; Ledford, J.; Player, K.; Gogineni, S.; , "A radar suite for ice sheet accumulation measurements and near-surface internal layer mapping," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009 , vol.5, no., pp.V-441-V-444, 12-17 July 2009
doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417635

Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2011-06-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-06-01

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