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Research article
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20 Jul 2016
Research article |
| 20 Jul 2016
An ice-sheet-wide framework for englacial attenuation from ice-penetrating radar data
Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
C. N. Williams
Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
J. D. Paden
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
M. J. Siegert
Grantham Institute and Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, University of London, London, UK
P. Huybrechts
Earth System Science and Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
O. Gagliardini
Le Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
F. Gillet-Chaulet
Le Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France
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- Comparison of measurements from different radio-echo sounding systems and synchronization with the ice core at Dome C, Antarctica A. Winter et al.
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- Multisystem Synthesis of Radar Sounding Observations of the Amundsen Sea Sector From the 2004–2005 Field Season W. Chu et al.
- Basal Melt Patterns around the Deep Ice Core Drilling Site in the Dome A Region from Ice-Penetrating Radar Measurements H. Wang et al.
- SH Seismoelectric Response of a Glacier: An Analytic Study L. Monachesi et al.
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- Ocean access beneath the southwest tributary of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica D. Schroeder et al.
- Self-affine subglacial roughness: consequences for radar scattering and basal water discrimination in northern Greenland T. Jordan et al.
- Complex Basal Thermal Transition Near the Onset of Petermann Glacier, Greenland W. Chu et al.
- Misidentified subglacial lake beneath the Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic: a new interpretation from seismic and electromagnetic data S. Killingbeck et al.
- Antarctic subglacial groundwater: a concept paper on its measurement and potential influence on ice flow M. Siegert et al.
- Adaptively constraining radar attenuation and temperature across the Thwaites Glacier catchment using bed echoes D. SCHROEDER et al.
- Complex Basal Conditions and Their Influence on Ice Flow at the Onset of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream S. Franke et al.
- Next-generation radar bed measurements should be optimized for assimilation or repeat-pass profiling D. Schroeder et al.
- HF/VHF Radar Sounding of Ice from Manned and Unmanned Airborne Platforms E. Arnold et al.
- A framework for attenuation method selection evaluated with ice-penetrating radar data at South Pole Lake B. Hills et al.
- Amery Ice Shelf Grounding Line Datapoints Automated Extraction From Airborne Ice-Penetrating Radar M. Xia et al.
- A Radiometrically Precise Multi-Frequency Ice-Penetrating Radar Architecture A. Broome & D. Schroeder
- Five decades of radioglaciology D. Schroeder et al.
- Radar evidence of ponded subglacial water in Greenland G. OSWALD et al.
- A constraint upon the basal water distribution and thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet from radar bed echoes T. Jordan et al.
- Comparison of measurements from different radio-echo sounding systems and synchronization with the ice core at Dome C, Antarctica A. Winter et al.
- Probing Shallow Aquifers in Hyperarid Dune Fields Using VHF Sounding Radar E. Heggy et al.
- Polarimetric Airborne Radar Sounding as an Approach to Characterizing Subglacial Röthlisberger Channels K. Scanlan et al.
- Radar‐Sounding Characterization of the Subglacial Groundwater Table Beneath Hiawatha Glacier, Greenland J. Bessette et al.
- Multisystem Synthesis of Radar Sounding Observations of the Amundsen Sea Sector From the 2004–2005 Field Season W. Chu et al.
- Basal Melt Patterns around the Deep Ice Core Drilling Site in the Dome A Region from Ice-Penetrating Radar Measurements H. Wang et al.
- SH Seismoelectric Response of a Glacier: An Analytic Study L. Monachesi et al.
- Heterogeneous Basal Thermal Conditions Underpinning the Adélie‐George V Coast, East Antarctica E. Dawson et al.
- Iceberg influence on snow distribution and slush formation on Antarctic landfast sea ice from airborne multi-sensor observations S. Franke et al.
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Short summary
Ice penetrating radar enables determination of the basal properties of ice sheets. Existing algorithms assume stationarity in the attenuation rate, which is not justifiable at an ice sheet scale. We introduce the first ice-sheet-wide algorithm for radar attenuation that incorporates spatial variability, using the temperature field from a numerical model as an initial guess. The study is a step toward ice-sheet-wide data products for basal properties and evaluation of model temperature fields.
Ice penetrating radar enables determination of the basal properties of ice sheets. Existing...
