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Airborne Laser Altimetry of the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica
Entry ID:
NSIDC-0334
Summary
Abstract:
This data set includes airborne altimetry collected over the catchment and main trunk of Thwaites Glacier, one of Antarctica's most active ice streams. The airborne altimetry comprises 35,000 line-kilometers sampled at 20 meters along track. The full dataset has an internal error of ±20 cm; a primary subset has an error of ±8 cm. We find a +20 cm bias with Geoscience Laser Altimeter System data over a flat interior region. These data will serve as an additional temporal reference for the evolution of Thwaites Glacier surface, as well as aid the construction of future high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM). Line data are available in space-delimited ASCII format and are available via FTP.
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator:
Duncan Young
Dataset Title:
Airborne Laser Altimetry of the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica
Dataset Release Date:
2008-01-01
Dataset Release Place:
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Dataset Publisher:
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Online Resource:
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0334.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
2004-12-10
Stop Date:
2005-01-29
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Quality
The Quality flag (either 'PRIMARY' or 'SECONDARY') indicates whether the (root mean square)RMS crossovers values of the data was low enough to allow it to influence other data during leveling, or whether it should attempt to level to other data.
Use Constraints
If these data are used in a publication, they should be cited using the following reference: Young, D. A., S. D. Kempf, D. D. Blankenship, J. W. Holt, and D. L. Morse (in press), New airborne laser altimetry over the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2007GC001935
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
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Distribution
Distribution Media:
FTP
Distribution Size:
161 MB
Distribution Format:
ASCII text
Personnel
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
Bldg. 196
10100 Burnet Road (R2200)
City:
Austin
Province or State:
Texas
Postal Code:
78758-4445
Country:
USA
Publications/References
Holt, J. W., D. D. Blankenship, D. L. Morse, D. A. Young, M. E. Peters, S. D. Kempf, T. G. Richter, D. G. Vaughan, and H. Corr (2006), New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: Subglacial topography of the Thwaites and Smith Glacier catchments, Geophysical Research Letters, 33(L09502), 10.1029/2005GL025561.
Blankenship, D. D., D. Morse, C. A. Finn, R. E. Bell, M. E. ... Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2008-04-04
Last DIF Revision Date:
2010-05-14
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