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<Entry_ID>PANGAEA_991465</Entry_ID>
<Entry_Title>ANT 2024/25: AWI airborne ultra-wideband radar data around Sør Rondane Mountains in eastern DML (CHARISO Project)</Entry_Title>
<Data_Set_Citation>
<Dataset_Creator>Helm, Veit; Steinhage, Daniel; Eagles, Graeme; Franke, Steven; Eisen, Olaf; Bodart, Julien A; Sutter, Johannes</Dataset_Creator>
<Dataset_Title>ANT 2024/25: AWI airborne ultra-wideband radar data around Sør Rondane Mountains in eastern DML (CHARISO Project)</Dataset_Title>
<Dataset_Release_Date>2026-02-18</Dataset_Release_Date>
<Dataset_Publisher>PANGAEA</Dataset_Publisher>
<Data_Presentation_Form>Dataset</Data_Presentation_Form>
<Online_Resource>https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.991465</Online_Resource>
</Data_Set_Citation>
<Personnel>
<Role>Investigator</Role>
<First_Name>Veit</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Helm</Last_Name>
<Email>Veit.Helm@awi.de</Email>
</Personnel>
<Discipline>
<Discipline_Name>Earth Science</Discipline_Name>
</Discipline>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Season</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Event label</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Profile ID</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Instrument</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Radar product</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>netCDF file</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>netCDF file (File Size)</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>GIS file</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Image</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
<Keyword>Aircraft</Keyword>
<Keyword>AWI UWB</Keyword>
<Keyword>Dronning Maud Land</Keyword>
<Keyword>East Antarctica</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ice Sheet</Keyword>
<Keyword>Internal Reflection Horizon</Keyword>
<Keyword>P6-255_ANT_2024_2025</Keyword>
<Keyword>P6-255_ANT_2024_2025_2412141001</Keyword>
<Keyword>P6-255_ANT_2024_2025_2501012002</Keyword>
<Keyword>P6-255_ANT_2024_2025_2501022101</Keyword>
<Keyword>P6-255_ANT_2024_2025_2501052201</Keyword>
<Keyword>P6-255_ANT_2024_2025_2501072502</Keyword>
<Keyword>Polar 6</Keyword>
<Keyword>radio-echo sounding</Keyword>
<Keyword>Sør Rondane Mountains</Keyword>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>Ultra-wideband radar (UWB), MCoRDS 5</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Source_Name>
<Long_Name>POLAR 6</Long_Name>
</Source_Name>
<Temporal_Coverage>
<Start_Date>2024-12-14</Start_Date>
<Stop_Date>2025-01-07</Stop_Date>
</Temporal_Coverage>
<Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
<Spatial_Coverage>
<Southernmost_Latitude>-71.948997</Southernmost_Latitude>
<Northernmost_Latitude>-71.94894</Northernmost_Latitude>
<Westernmost_Longitude>23.297731</Westernmost_Longitude>
<Easternmost_Longitude>23.298313</Easternmost_Longitude>
</Spatial_Coverage>
<Access_Constraints>unrestricted</Access_Constraints>
<Use_Constraints>CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</Use_Constraints>
<Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
<Data_Center>
<Data_Center_Name>
<Short_Name>PANGAEA</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>Data Publisher for Earth &amp; Environmental Science</Long_Name>
</Data_Center_Name>
<Data_Center_URL>https://www.pangaea.de/</Data_Center_URL>
<Personnel>
<Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
<First_Name>Michael</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Diepenbroek</Last_Name>
<Email>info@pangaea.de</Email>
<Contact_Address>
<Address>Leobener Str.</Address>
<City>Bremen</City>
<Province_or_State>Bremen</Province_or_State>
<Postal_Code>28359</Postal_Code>
<Country>Germany</Country>
</Contact_Address>
</Personnel>
</Data_Center>
<Distribution>
<Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
<Distribution_Size>630 data points</Distribution_Size>
<Distribution_Format>text/tab-separated-values</Distribution_Format>
</Distribution>
<Reference>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</Reference>
<Reference>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</Reference>
<Reference>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</Reference>
<Reference>Bodart, Julien A; Sutter, Johannes (2025): Dated radar Internal Reflection Horizons (IRHs) from Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) for ice-sheet model calibration (Version V1) [dataset]. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17348976</Reference>
<Summary>In the Antarctic austral summer season of 2024/25 AWI ultra-wideband (UWB) data was acquired across prominent ice-streams draining parts of the DML region as part of the CHARISO (Swiss (CH) Antarctic Research Initiative - ISOchrones in East Antarctic outflow regions) project, providing an opportunity to trace isochrones there and compare their pattern with modelled isochrones from ice-sheet modelling. The data were further used to the existing AWI UWB radar profiles from the ANT 2023/24 CHARISO season and were recorded in a frequency range between 150-520 MHz. 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. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.991465"! ** Project: CHARISO (Isochrones in East Antarctic outflow regions; Swiss Antarctic Research Initiative)
Region: Antarctica, Dronning Maud Land, South of Sør Rondane Mountains

Owner / PI: Olaf Eisen (AWI)
CHARISO PI: Johannes Sutter (Uni Bern - johannes.sutter@unibe.ch)

Email address of the provider:
olaf.eisen@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
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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
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Note that the surface picks were quality-checked for the standard product. For the qlook product only an auto-tracked surface pick is available.</Summary>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-153</URL>
<Description>POLAR 6</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6</URL>
<Description>netCDF file</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6</URL>
<Description>netCDF file (File Size)</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2485-2026</URL>
<Description>Review article: 30 years of airborne radar surveys on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the Alfred Wegener Institute</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17348976</URL>
<Description>Dated radar Internal Reflection Horizons (IRHs) from Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) for ice-sheet model calibration (Version V1)</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972094</URL>
<Description>Collection of datasets from AWI's radio-echo sounding systems on ice sheets and glaciers</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://registry.o2a-data.de/items/6809</URL>
<Description>Metadata for radar system Ultra-wideband ice radar at current Version</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/veit-helm.html</URL>
</Related_URL>
<Metadata_Name>DIF</Metadata_Name>
<Metadata_Version>9.4</Metadata_Version>
<DIF_Creation_Date>2026-02-18</DIF_Creation_Date>
<Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2026-08-06</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
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