Data · collection · 2018
Autonomous phase sensitive radar on Sorsdal Glacier 2015-2016
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
Description
ApRES installation at site S02 Sorsdal Glacier Installation date: 8th December 2015 Data retrieval: 24th December 2016 Coordinates: 68 degrees 42.424 S, 78 degrees 06.575 E, Elevation: 75 m Measurement interval: 1 hr This instrument was installed on the floating section of the Sorsdal Glacier to monitor changes in ice thickness. ApRES phase-sensitive radar is a low-power, light-weight instrument developed in a collaboration between BAS and University College London.
It is a 200-400 MHz FMCW radar, with a 1-second chirp, run by controller. The radar’s transmit aerial and receive aerial are spaced 1.5 meters each side of the electronics box and are all buried. The radar antenna boxes were quickly infiltrated by water making summer data extremely noisy.
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The equipment eventually failed when the refreezing water snapped a cable connector. Thicknesses were retrieved for the period 2nd March 2016 - 19th June 2016 only. Files: *.dat - binary files containing raw data config.ini - config file containing all radar settings used AAS4342_ApRES_S02_Thickness.csv - derived timeseries of ice thickness Uncertainty in the measured ice thickness derives from three main sources: Inherent resolution of instrument (0.03 m) Potential mis-identification of basal return (2 m) Uncertainty in the speed of light in solid ice (1.2% of ice thickness, McNabb et al. 2012) Software for processing the raw data can be obtained from Dr.
Keith Nicholls, British Antarctic Survey. Reference: Mcnabb, R., Hock, R., O’Neel, S., Rasmussen, L., Ahn, Y., Braun, M., . . . Truffer, M. (2012).
Using surface velocities to calculate ice thickness and bed topography: A case study at Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA. Journal of Glaciology, 58(212), 1151-1164. doi:10.3189/2012JoG11J249
Links
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- Request a copy of the data data.aad.gov.au/eds/4616/download ↗
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.4225/15/5aa9bf5105930 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Documentation and papers
- data.aad.gov.au /aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4342_ApRES_S02_2015-16 ↗
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset.
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Public information for AAS project AAS_4342 secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=AAS… ↗
project · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1459701887-AU_AADC.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1459701887-AU_AADC.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- FIELD SURVEYS · Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness · Radio Detection and Ranging
- Inferred from text
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience 69%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
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| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1459701887-AU_AADC | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
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| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3709 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:radar | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/climate-indicators/cryospheric-indicators/glacial-measurements/glacier-ice-sheet-thickness | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:field-surveys | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |