Differential Interferograms of the grounding zone at Priestley Glacier, Antarctica, aquired with Terrestrial Radar Interferometry

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These data were aquired with a Terrestrial Radar Interferometer overlooking the grounding zone of Priestley Glacier, Antarctica. The time series contains differential interferograms with a 12h temporal baseline covering an approximately 8 day period in November 2018. Tidal modulation of ice streams and their adjacent ice shelves is a real-world experiment to understand ice-dynamic processes. We observe the dynamics of Priestley Glacier, Antarctica, using Terrestrial Radar Interferometry (TRI) and GNSS. Ocean tides are predominantly diurnal but horizontal GNSS displacements oscillate also semi-diurnally. The oscillations are strongest in the ice shelf and tidal signatures decay near-linearly in the TRI data over >10 km upstream of the grounding line. Tidal flexing is observed >6 km upstream of the grounding line including cm-scale uplift. Tidal grounding line migration is small and <40 % of the ice thickness. The frequency doubling of horizontal displacements relative to the ocean tides is consistent with variable ice-shelf buttressing demonstrated with a visco-elastic Maxwell model. Taken together, this supports previously hypothesized flexural ice softening in the grounding-zone through tides and offers new observational constraints for the role of ice rheology in ice-shelf buttressing.

Time series of unwrapped interferograms with a 12h temporal baseline taken with a Terrestrial Radar Interferometer in November 2018 near the grounding zone of Priestley Glacier, Antarctica- The Zip Archive contains 252 Geotiff raster files in geographic project (EPSG 4326)- Each raster has 8793 x 2593 entries- All digits preceding the *_12.0h.diff.geo.tif file ending relate to time of the acquisition in terms of the decimal day of year 2018- The differential interferograms were unwrapped and converted into line-of-sight displacement in meters

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935707
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.935707
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Creator Drews, Reinhard (ORCID: 0000-0002-2328-294X); Wild, Christian T; Marsh, Oliver (ORCID: 0000-0001-7874-514X); Rack, Wolfgang (ORCID: 0000-0003-2447-377X); Ehlers, Todd A ORCID logo; Neckel, Niklas ORCID logo; Helm, Veit ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference Antarctica New Zealand https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001546 Crossref Funder ID Type-A 2018-1 ; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID DR 822/3-1 Emmy Noether Program DR 822/3-1; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 689443 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/689443 The European network for observing our changing planet
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/zip
Size 218 MBytes
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (163.500 LON, -74.400 LAT)