Citation:

PANGAEA.984841

Name: ANT 2016/17: AWI airborne Accumulation Radar data over central Dronning Maund Land and around the Dome Fuji ice core site (OIR Dome F and GEA-Vb-FMA projects), Version 2
Published: 2025-11-11
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Accumulation radar; AWI ACCU; Dome Fuji; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; EDML; Ice core; Polar 6; radio-echo sounding

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Published: 2025-11-11 • DOI registered: 2025-12-10

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Abstract:

This dataset contains airborne radar data acquired using the AWI Accumulation Radar (ACCU) system during the Antarctic season of 2016/17 to investiage the geodynamic evolution of East Antarctica, and for the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice reconnaissance around Dome Fuji. The profiles extend across the central Dronning Maud Land across the Jutulstraumen drainage basin, around the EDML ice core site and around Dome Fuji. The data are available as netCDF files (including waveforms and metadata), KML files of the profile line locations, and quicklook images of the radargrams.

Keyword(s):

Accumulation radar; AWI ACCU; Dome Fuji; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; EDML; Ice core; Polar 6; radio-echo sounding

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

References:

Jenett, Martin; Steinhage, Daniel (2012): Hochauflösendes, flugzeuggestütztes FMCW-Radargerät zur Bestimmung interner Eisschichtungen in den oberen 200 m polarer Eisschilde. DGG Mitteilungen, Sonderband 1/2012 "Georadar - Erfahrungen und Perspektiven", 26-31, https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/33929/

Additional metadata:

O2A Registry: Metadata for radar system Accumulation Radar 400-800 MHz at current version. Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, hdl:10013/sensor.0ed5f948-e104-4e63-80c5-6b8923c018e9

Project(s):

Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice (BE-OI)

Funding:

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI), grant/award no. AWI_PA_02083: P6-204_ANT_GEA_2016_2017, GEA-Vb-FMA

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI), grant/award no. AWI_PA_02084: P6-204_ANT_OIR_2016_2017, OIR Dome F

Horizon 2020 (H2020), grant/award no. 730258 : Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice

Coverage:

Median Latitude: -76.817533 * Median Longitude: 18.481760 * South-bound Latitude: -79.000197 * West-bound Longitude: 0.034977 * North-bound Latitude: -69.892313 * East-bound Longitude: 29.999096

Date/Time Start: 2016-12-03T14:05:06 * Date/Time End: 2017-01-11T11:49:13

Event(s):

P6_204_ANT_GEA_2016_2017_1612030703 * Latitude Start: -70.824006 * Longitude Start: 11.642864 * Latitude End: -70.823966 * Longitude End: 11.642672 * Date/Time Start: 2016-12-03T14:05:06 * Date/Time End: 2016-12-03T19:07:05 * Location: Antarctica * Campaign: (Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica, the Forster Magnetic Anomaly) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)

P6_204_ANT_GEA_2016_2017_1612040901 * Latitude Start: -70.824005 * Longitude Start: 11.642926 * Latitude End: -75.001097 * Longitude End: 0.058860 * Date/Time Start: 2016-12-04T14:05:21 * Date/Time End: 2016-12-04T16:24:19 * Location: Antarctica * Campaign: (Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica, the Forster Magnetic Anomaly) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)

P6_204_ANT_GEA_2016_2017_1612051001 * Latitude Start: -75.001011 * Longitude Start: 0.061936 * Latitude End: -70.823985 * Longitude End: 11.642832 * Date/Time Start: 2016-12-05T09:18:13 * Date/Time End: 2016-12-05T13:46:12 * Location: Antarctica * Campaign: (Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica, the Forster Magnetic Anomaly) * Basis: POLAR 6 * Method/Device: Aircraft (AC)

Comment:

New Version 2, 2025-09-10 (V1: doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.983479)

Projects: GEA-Vb-FMA (Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica, the Forster Magnetic Anomaly),OIR Dome F (Oldest Ice Reconnaissance Dome Fuji, Beyond EPICA)

Owner / PI of GEA-Vb-FMA: Graeme Eagles (graeme.eagles@awi.de)

Owner / PI of OIR Dome F: Olaf Eisen (olaf.eisen@awi.de)

Contact persons for AWI Radio-echo sounding data: Daniel Steinhage (daniel.steinhage@awi.de), Veit Helm (veit.helm@awi.de), Olaf Eisen (olaf.eisen@awi.de)

The netCDF files contain the following variables:

altitude: Platform altitude (WGS84) in meters

bed_elevation: Bed elevation for each trace (without applying a firn correction and permitivity of ice: 3.15) in meters

bed_pick: picked Bed location for each trace, expressed as twt in seconds from time zero

data: Radar data (Values in dBm after DC conversion)

data_agc: Scaled radar data using automatic gain control (AGC)

distance: Along-track distance in meters

ice_thickness: Ice thickness for each trace (without applying a firn correction and permitivity of ice: 3.15) in meters

lat: Latitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

lon: Longitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)

range: Range between sensor and surface in meters

spacing: Along-track trace to trace spacing in meters

surface: Surface elevation derived from radar (WGS84) in meters

surface_pick: Picked surface reflection in two-way travel time in seconds

time: Seconds of day

twt: Two-way travel time (twt) in seconds

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Season	Season		Eisen, Olaf
2	Profile ID	Profile ID		Eisen, Olaf
3	Instrument	Instrument		Eisen, Olaf
4	Radar product	Radar prod		Eisen, Olaf
5	netCDF file	netCDF		Eisen, Olaf	Accumulation Radar 400-800 MHz (FMCW)
6	netCDF file (File Size)	netCDF (Size)	Bytes	Eisen, Olaf	Accumulation Radar 400-800 MHz (FMCW)
7	GIS file	GIS		Eisen, Olaf	Accumulation Radar 400-800 MHz (FMCW)	KML Files
8	Image	IMAGE		Eisen, Olaf	Accumulation Radar 400-800 MHz (FMCW)	Quicklook

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

2212 data points

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