ARK 2016: AWI airborne ultra-wideband radar data in Northwest Greenland over the Hiawatha Glacier (Hiawatha project)

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This dataset contains airborne radar data acquired using the AWIs multi-channel ultra-wideband radar system (AWI UWB) during the Arctic season of 2016. The profiles extend across the Northwest Greenland Ice Sheet over the Hiawatha Glacier covering the Hiawatha impact crater. The data are available as netCDF files (including waveforms and metadata), KML files of the profile line locations, and quicklook images of the radargrams.

Region: Hiawatha Glacier covering the Hiawatha impact craterOwner / PI: Olaf Eisen (olaf.eisen@awi.de), Joe MacGregor (NASA), Horst Machguth (Université de Fribourg)Email address of the provider:olaf.eisen@awi.dedaniela.jansen@awi.deveit.helm@awi.deInstrument used: AWI UWB (MCoRDS 5)Data products: CSARP_standard (SAR focussed), CSARP_qlook (unfocussed)Data product documentation: https://data.cresis.ku.edu/data/rds/rds_readme.pdfMethod of navigation : GPS data was acquired by four NovAtel DL-V3 GPS receivers operating at 20Hz--The netCDF files contain the following variables:altitude: Platform altitude (WGS84) in metersbed_elevation: Bed elevation for each trace (without applying a firn correction and permitivity of ice: 3.15) in metersbed_pick: picked Bed location for each trace, expressed as twt in seconds from time zerodata: Radar data (Values in dBm after DC conversion)data_agc: Scaled radar data using automatic gain control (AGC)distance: Along-track distance in metersice_thickness: Ice thickness for each trace (without applying a firn correction and permitivity of ice: 3.15) in meterslat: Latitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)lon: Longitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)range: Range between sensor and surface in metersspacing: Along-track trace to trace spacing in meterssurface: Surface elevation derived from radar (WGS84) in meterssurface_pick: Picked surface reflection in two-way travel time in secondstime: Seconds of daytwt: Two-way travel time (twt) in seconds--Note that the surface picks were quality-checked for the standard product. For the qlook product only an auto-tracked surface pick is available.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.982619
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972094
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar8173
Related Identifier HasMetadata https://registry.o2a-data.de/items/6809
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Provenance
Creator Eisen, Olaf (ORCID: 0000-0002-6380-962X); MacGregor, Joseph A; Machguth, Horst ORCID logo; Steinhage, Daniel; Helm, Veit ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003207 Crossref Funder ID AWI_PA_02079 P6-201_UWB_2016, HIAWATHA
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
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 690 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-68.721W, 76.535S, -68.093E, 77.240N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-05-12T13:02:37Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-05-17T14:36:12Z