PANGAEA_988312 ARK 2016: AWI airborne ultra-wideband radar data in Central-west and South-west Greenland (UWB Testflights) Miller, Heinrich; Helm, Veit; Steinhage, Daniel; Franke, Steven; Binder, Tobias ARK 2016: AWI airborne ultra-wideband radar data in Central-west and South-west Greenland (UWB Testflights) 2026-01-06 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.988312 Investigator Heinrich Miller Heinrich.Miller@awi.de Earth Science Season Event label Profile ID Instrument Radar product netCDF file netCDF file (File Size) GIS file Image geoscientificInformation Aircraft AWI UWB Greenland ice sheet Jakobshavn Isbræ P6-201_UWB_2016 Polar 6 radio-echo sounding UWB_2016_1604130501 UWB_2016_1604180601 UWB_2016_1604180702 UWB_2016_1604200901 UWB_2016_1604251001 UWB_2016_1604261202 Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5 POLAR 6 2016-04-13 2016-04-26 Complete 66.83501 70.732558 -52.694882 -47.115316 unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 760 data points text/tab-separated-values 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; Steinhage, Daniel; Helm, Veit; Binder, Tobias; Nixdorf, Uwe; Miller, Heinrich; Humbert, Angelika; Jansen, Daniela; Eagles, Graeme; Eisermann, Hannes; Jokat, Wilfried; Ruppel, Antonia; Drews, Reinhard; Zuhr, Alexandra; Driemel, Amelie; Walter, Andreas; Konopatzky, Peter; Heß, Robin; Haas, Antonie; Koppe, Roland; Andreas, Pascal H; Eisen, Olaf (2026): Review article: 30 years of airborne radar surveys on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the Alfred Wegener Institute. The Cryosphere, 20(4), 2485-2530, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2485-2026 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

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 Central-west and South-west Greenland Ice Sheet over e.g., Store Glacier and Jakobshavn Isbræ and were part of the first test season of the AWI UWB radar system. The data are available as netCDF files (including waveforms and metadata), KML files of the profile line locations, and quicklook images of the radargrams. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.988312"! ** Project: UWB Testflights Region: Central-west and South-west Greenland ice sheet Owner / PI: Heinrich Miller (heinrich.miller@awi.de) Email address of the provider: olaf.eisen@awi.de daniela.jansen@awi.de veit.helm@awi.de Instrument 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.pdf Method 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 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 -- Note that the surface picks were quality-checked for the standard product. For the qlook product only an auto-tracked surface pick is available.

https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-153 POLAR 6 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6 netCDF file https://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6 netCDF file (File Size) https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2485-2026 Review article: 30 years of airborne radar surveys on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the Alfred Wegener Institute https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972094 Collection of datasets from AWI's radio-echo sounding systems on ice sheets and glaciers https://registry.o2a-data.de/items/6809 Metadata for radar system Ultra-wideband ice radar at current Version https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/heinrich-miller.html DIF 9.4 2026-01-06 2026-08-06