Franke, Steven; Helm, Veit; Steinhage, Daniel; Jansen, Daniela (2025): ANT 2018/19: AWI airborne ultra-wideband radar data over the Jutulstraumen Drainage Basin and South of Sør Rondane Mountains in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica (JuRaS Project) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.976759
Always quote citation above when using data! You can download the citation in several formats below.
Published: 2025-05-27 • DOI registered: 2025-07-19
Abstract:
Radio-echo sounding (RES) data from Jutulstraumen Glacier in western Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica recorded with the Alfred Wegener Institutes multi-channel ultra-wideband (AWI UWB) radar system in the Austral summer season 2018/19. The survey region is centered on the initiation zone of accelerating ice flow (~ 5 to 50 meters per year) at the onset of the Jutulstraumen Ice Stream, located within the Jutulstraumen drainage basin in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. This region marks the a transition from the thick ice sheet of the central plateau to the dynamic convergent ice flow regime leading through the Jutulstraumen Graben, which ultimately feeds into the Fimbul Ice Shelf. The UWB profiles at the Jutulstraumen Ice Stream are organized into two distinct sets, each aligned approximately perpendicular to ice flow and spaced at intervals of 7.5 km. Moreover, this dataset includes UWB profiles south of Sør Rondane Mountains in eastern Dronning Maud Land. The data was mainly recorded in a frequency range between 180-210 MHz and is SAR processed but single profiles south of Sør Rondane Mountains were recorded in frequency ranges of 320-350 and 150-520 MHz, respectively. The data are available for both data products (qlook: unfocused; standard: SAR focused) as netCDF files (including waveforms and metadata), KML files of the profile line locations, and quicklook images of the radargrams.
Keyword(s):
Related to:
Eisen, Olaf; Steinhage, Daniel; Franke, Steven; Helm, Veit; Binder, Tobias; Drews, Reinhard; Eagles, Graeme; Humbert, Angelika; Jansen, Daniela; Jokat, Wilfried; Lambrecht, Astrid; Mieth, Matthias; Riedel, Sven; Miller, Heinrich (2024): Collection of datasets from AWI's radio-echo sounding systems on ice sheets and glaciers [dataset bibliography]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972094
Franke, Steven; Eisermann, Hannes; Jokat, Wilfried; Eagles, Graeme; Asseng, Jölund; Miller, Heinrich; Steinhage, Daniel; Helm, Veit; Eisen, Olaf; Jansen, Daniela (2021): Preserved landscapes underneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet reveal the geomorphological history of Jutulstraumen Basin. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46(13), 2728-2745, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5203
Franke, Steven; Gerber, Tamara Annina; Warren, Craig; Jansen, Daniela; Eisen, Olaf; Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe (2023): Investigating the Radar Response of Englacial Debris Entrained Basal Ice Units in East Antarctica Using Electromagnetic Forward Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3277874
Franke, Steven; Steinhage, Daniel; Helm, Veit; Zuhr, Alexandra; Bodart, Julien A; Eisen, Olaf; Bons, Paul D (2025): Age-depth distribution in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, and Antarctic-wide comparisons of internal reflection horizons. The Cryosphere, 19(3), 1153-1180, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1153-2025
Franke, Steven; Wolovick, Michael; Drews, Reinhard; Jansen, Daniela; Matsuoka, Kenichi; Bons, Paul D (2024): Sediment freeze-on and transport near the onset of a fast-flowing glacier in East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107164, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107164
Neckel, Niklas; Franke, Steven; Helm, Veit; Drews, Reinhard; Jansen, Daniela (2021): Evidence of cascading subglacial water flow at Jutulstraumen Glacier (Antarctica) derived from Sentinel-1 and ICESat-2 measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094472
Additional metadata:
O2A Registry: Metadata for radar system Ultra-wideband ice radar at current Version. Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, https://registry.o2a-data.de/items/6809
Funding:
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI), grant/award no. AWI_PA_02105: JuRaS, P6-215_UWB_2018
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -72.607212 * Median Longitude: 4.931014 * South-bound Latitude: -75.001133 * West-bound Longitude: 0.058800 * North-bound Latitude: -71.949299 * East-bound Longitude: 23.300183
Date/Time Start: 2018-12-22T09:12:50 * Date/Time End: 2019-01-05T17:48:10
Event(s):
P6_215_UWB_2018_1812220301 * Latitude Start: -71.955397 * Longitude Start: 2.472649 * Latitude End: -75.001112 * Longitude End: 0.061624 * Date/Time Start: 2018-12-22T09:12:50 * Date/Time End: 2018-12-22T13:18:49 * Campaign: P6-215_UWB_2018 (JuRaS, CHIRP) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
P6_215_UWB_2018_1812260501 * Latitude Start: -71.955418 * Longitude Start: 2.472312 * Latitude End: -71.955430 * Longitude End: 2.472169 * Date/Time Start: 2018-12-26T08:36:41 * Date/Time End: 2018-12-26T12:40:40 * Campaign: P6-215_UWB_2018 (JuRaS, CHIRP) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
P6_215_UWB_2018_1812260602 * Latitude Start: -71.955432 * Longitude Start: 2.472197 * Latitude End: -71.955405 * Longitude End: 2.472296 * Date/Time Start: 2018-12-26T14:45:10 * Date/Time End: 2018-12-26T19:13:10 * Campaign: P6-215_UWB_2018 (JuRaS, CHIRP) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Season | Season | Franke, Steven | |||
| 2 | Event label | Event | Franke, Steven | |||
| 3 | Profile ID | Profile ID | Franke, Steven | |||
| 4 | Instrument | Instrument | Franke, Steven | |||
| 5 | Radar product | Radar prod | Franke, Steven | |||
| 6 | netCDF file | netCDF | Franke, Steven | Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 | standard | |
| 7 | netCDF file (File Size) | netCDF (Size) | Bytes | Franke, Steven | Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 | standard |
| 8 | netCDF file | netCDF | Franke, Steven | Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 | qlook | |
| 9 | GIS file | GIS | Franke, Steven | Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 | KML Files, standard | |
| 10 | GIS file | GIS | Franke, Steven | Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 | KML Files, qlook | |
| 11 | Image | IMAGE | Franke, Steven | Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 | Quicklook, standard | |
| 12 | Image | IMAGE | Franke, Steven | Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 | Quicklook, qlook |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
802 data points
Data
All files referred to in data matrix can be downloaded in one go as ZIP or TAR. Be careful: This download can be very large! To protect our systems from misuse, we require to sign up for an user account before downloading.
