Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-255-2023
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-255-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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20 Jan 2023
Research article |
| 20 Jan 2023
| 20 Jan 2023
Ice Sheet and Sea Ice Ultrawideband Microwave radiometric Airborne eXperiment (ISSIUMAX) in Antarctica: first results from Terra Nova Bay
“N.Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics – National Research Council, IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
Mark J. Andrews
Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212, USA
Stefano Urbini
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Rome, 00143, Italy
Kenneth C. Jezek
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Joel T. Johnson
Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212, USA
Marion Leduc-Leballeur
“N.Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics – National Research Council, IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
Giovanni Macelloni
“N.Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics – National Research Council, IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
Stephen F. Ackley
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
Alexandra Bringer
Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212, USA
Ludovic Brucker
Center for Satellite Application and Research NOAA/NESDIS and the U.S. National Ice Center, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oguz Demir
Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212, USA
Giacomo Fontanelli
“N.Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics – National Research Council, IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
Caglar Yardim
Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212, USA
Lars Kaleschke
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
Francesco Montomoli
“N.Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics – National Research Council, IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
Leung Tsang
Radiation Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122, USA
Silvia Becagli
“U. Schiff” Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
Massimo Frezzotti
Department of Science, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, 00154, Italy
Data sets
EOCAT ESA https://eocat.esa.int/sec/#data-services-area
EarthExplorer USGS https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
IceBridge Accumulation Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles, Version 2 J. Paden, J. Li, C. Leuschen, F. Rodriguez-Morales, and R. Hale https://doi.org/10.5067/0ZY1XYHNIQNY
Short summary
In 2018 the first Antarctic campaign of UWBRAD was carried out. UWBRAD is a new radiometer able to collect microwave spectral signatures over 0.5–2 GHz, thus outperforming existing similar sensors. It allows us to probe thicker sea ice and ice sheet down to the bedrock. In this work we tried to assess the UWBRAD potentials for sea ice, glaciers, ice shelves and buried lakes. We also highlighted the wider range of information the spectral signature can provide to glaciological studies.
In 2018 the first Antarctic campaign of UWBRAD was carried out. UWBRAD is a new radiometer able...
