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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1547-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1547-2016
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

T. M. Jordan, J. L. Bamber, C. N. Williams, J. D. Paden, M. J. Siegert, P. Huybrechts, O. Gagliardini, and F. Gillet-Chaulet

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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.