High-resolution Digital Elevation Model of subglacial topography in the onset region of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, generated from swath radar imaging

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Rapidly-flowing ice streams drain the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet, currently accounting for half of its annual mass loss. The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) is one of the longest, recognisable almost 600 km inland, extending close to the ice divide. Here, we use swath radar imaging to create a high-resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the bed under the onset zone of the NEGIS, from radio-echo sounding data collected in 2022. The DEM covers a 40 km by 60 km area centred on the drill site for the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP). It has a spatial resolution of 25 m in coordinate system WGS 84 NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG 3413). The acquisition system was a multichannel ultra-wideband radar mounted on AWI's POLAR 5 aircraft.

AWI Flight Campaign: P5-233_NEGIS_2022Project: EGRIP-NOR-2022Instrument used: AWI UWB (MCorRDS 5)Region: Greenland, North East Greenland Ice StreamOwner / PI: Olaf Eisen (AWI)Email address of the provider: charlotte.carter@awi.de, olaf.eisen@awi.de

Identifier
DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972422
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.972422
Provenance
Creator Carter, Charlotte ORCID logo; Franke, Steven ORCID logo; Helm, Veit ORCID logo; Jansen, Daniela ORCID logo; Paden, John D; Eisen, Olaf (ORCID: 0000-0002-6380-962X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
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Resource Type Dataset
Format image/tiff
Size 28.9 MBytes
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-35.989W, 75.635S, -35.987E, 75.635N); Arctic
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-06-03T13:14:05Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-06-16T20:11:23Z