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Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3649-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3649-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Research article
 | 
09 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2022

High-resolution imaging of supraglacial hydrological features on the Greenland Ice Sheet with NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite

Michael Studinger, Serdar S. Manizade, Matthew A. Linkswiler, and James K. Yungel

Data sets

ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Land Ice Height, Version 4 (ATL06) Ben Smith, Helen Fricker, Alex Gardner, Matthew Siegfried, and Susheel Adusumilli https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL06.004

IceBridge BedMachine Greenland, Version 4 (IDBMG4) Mathieu Morlighem https://doi.org/10.5067/VLJ5YXKCNGXO

Multilayer Greenland Ice Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor from MODIS, Version 1 (MODGRNLD) D. K. Hall and N. DiGirolamo https://doi.org/10.5067/7THUWT9NMPDK

NASA’s Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) ground calibration data for the Arctic Spring campaign 2019 Michael Studinger, Serdar S. Manizade, Matthew A. Linkswiler, and James K. Yungel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6248437

QGreenland (v1.0.2) Twila Moon, Matt Fisher, Lynne Harden, and Trey Stafford https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5548326

USGS EROS Archive - Sentinel-2 European Space Agency https://doi.org/10.5066/F76W992G

Model code and software

Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) Bathymetry Toolkit Michael Studinger https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6341230

geotiffinterp Chad Greene https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47899-geotiffinterp

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Short summary
The footprint density and high-resolution imagery of airborne surveys reveal details in supraglacial hydrological features that are currently not obtainable from spaceborne data. The accuracy and resolution of airborne measurements complement spaceborne measurements, can support calibration and validation of spaceborne methods, and provide information necessary for process studies of the hydrological system on ice sheets that currently cannot be achieved from spaceborne observations alone.
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