Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven AWI https://www.awi.de/ https://ror.org/032e6b942 Helm Veit Veit.Helm@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/veit-helm.html 0000-0001-7788-9328 Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven AWI https://www.awi.de/ https://ror.org/032e6b942 2026 ARK 1995: AWI airborne Radio-Echo Sounding data over Northeast Greenland (Aeromag project) dataset https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.995574 2026-06-18T09:50:56 This dataset contains airborne radar data acquired using the AWI EMR system (Nixdorf et al., 1999) during the Arctic season of 1995. The profiles extend in a grid in the northeasternmost part of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The data are available as netCDF files (including waveforms and metadata), KML files of the profile line locations, and quicklook images of the radargrams. Eisen Olaf olaf.eisen@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/olaf-eisen.html 0000-0002-6380-962X Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Franke Steven steven.franke@uni-tuebingen.de 0000-0001-8462-4379 Helm Veit Veit.Helm@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/veit-helm.html 0000-0001-7788-9328 Binder Tobias tobias.binder@awi.de 0000-0002-9826-8835 Drews Reinhard reinhard.drews@uni-tuebingen.de 0000-0002-2328-294X Eagles Graeme graeme.eagles@awi.de 0000-0001-5325-0810 Humbert Angelika Angelika.Humbert@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/angelika-humbert.html 0000-0002-0244-8760 Jansen Daniela Daniela.Jansen@awi.de 0000-0002-4412-5820 Jokat Wilfried wilfried.jokat@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/wilfried-jokat.html 0000-0002-7793-5854 Lambrecht Astrid astrid.lambrecht@badw.de Mieth Matthias Riedel Sven Miller Heinrich Heinrich.Miller@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/heinrich-miller.html 0000-0003-1015-2828 2024 Collection of datasets from AWI's radio-echo sounding systems on ice sheets and glaciers dataset bibliography https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972094 Franke Steven steven.franke@uni-tuebingen.de 0000-0001-8462-4379 Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Helm Veit Veit.Helm@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/veit-helm.html 0000-0001-7788-9328 Binder Tobias tobias.binder@awi.de 0000-0002-9826-8835 Nixdorf Uwe uwe.nixdorf@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/uwe-nixdorf.html 0000-0002-6288-4361 Miller Heinrich Heinrich.Miller@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/heinrich-miller.html 0000-0003-1015-2828 Humbert Angelika Angelika.Humbert@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/angelika-humbert.html 0000-0002-0244-8760 Jansen Daniela Daniela.Jansen@awi.de 0000-0002-4412-5820 Eagles Graeme graeme.eagles@awi.de 0000-0001-5325-0810 Eisermann Hannes heiserma@awi.de 0000-0002-5604-6484 Jokat Wilfried wilfried.jokat@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/wilfried-jokat.html 0000-0002-7793-5854 Ruppel Antonia Antonia.Ruppel@bgr.de 0000-0001-5101-411X Drews Reinhard reinhard.drews@uni-tuebingen.de 0000-0002-2328-294X Zuhr Alexandra alexandra.zuhr@uni-tuebingen.de 0000-0002-3861-365X Driemel Amelie amelie.driemel@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/amelie-driemel.html 0000-0001-8667-5217 Walter Andreas andreas.walter@awi.de 0000-0002-1153-7378 Konopatzky Peter peter.konopatzky@awi.de 0000-0003-3922-8398 Heß Robin Haas Antonie antonie.haas@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/antonie-haas.html 0000-0002-3771-4125 Koppe Roland roland.koppe@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/roland-koppe.html 0000-0002-2826-3932 Andreas Pascal H 0009-0003-1777-8708 Eisen Olaf olaf.eisen@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/olaf-eisen.html 0000-0002-6380-962X 2026 Review article: 30 years of airborne radar surveys on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the Alfred Wegener Institute journal article The Cryosphere 20(4) https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2485-2026 2485-2530 Nixdorf Uwe uwe.nixdorf@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/uwe-nixdorf.html 0000-0002-6288-4361 Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Meyer Uwe F Hempel L Jenett Martin Wachs P Miller Heinrich Heinrich.Miller@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/heinrich-miller.html 0000-0003-1015-2828 1999 The newly developed airborne radio-echo sounding system of the AWI as a glaciological tool journal article Annals of Glaciology 29 https://doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821346 231-238 O2A Registry Metadata for radar system Ice Thickness Radar 150 MHz at current version other Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research https://registry.o2a-data.de/items/6794 -30.20433 -14.01147 80.259789 82.49411 -17.529904833333337 81.604528125 1995-06-20T13:53:45 1995-07-10T18:35:23 Aeromag_1995_01 81.596603 -16.661869 1995-06-20T13:53:45 81.468193 -26.42947 1995-06-20T15:29:01 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_02 81.595886 -16.66013 1995-06-20T20:26:40 81.74968 -17.21736 1995-06-21T01:36:44 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_03 81.59581 -16.66304 1995-06-21T20:39:09 82.49411 -14.01147 1995-06-22T00:31:09 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_04 81.595978 -16.659109 1995-06-22T16:26:12 81.59449 -16.66831 1995-06-22T23:40:59 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_05 81.596512 -16.6612 1995-06-25T15:22:50 82.142387 -14.11523 1995-06-25T17:56:15 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_06 81.595963 -16.658171 1995-06-25T20:32:11 81.59642 -16.65584 1995-06-26T03:28:37 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_07 81.595657 -16.65937 1995-06-26T18:55:20 81.596039 -16.658541 1995-06-27T01:43:01 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_08 81.595718 -16.65863 1995-06-27T19:47:08 81.59549 -16.66147 1995-06-28T02:55:20 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_09 81.596107 -16.65778 1995-06-29T15:49:17 81.595619 -16.660179 1995-06-29T22:42:27 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_10 81.596642 -16.657419 1995-07-09T13:24:05 81.595947 -16.6632 1995-07-09T19:27:26 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_11 81.596367 -16.65877 1995-07-09T21:07:25 81.667351 -18.859209 1995-07-10T02:21:23 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC Aeromag_1995_12 81.595917 -16.657619 1995-07-10T15:14:56 80.259789 -30.20433 1995-07-10T18:35:23 Aeromag_1995 Aeromag_1995 1995-06-01T00:00:00 1995-06-01 1995-07-31T00:00:00 1995-07-31 POLAR 2 Steinhage, Daniel Steinhage, Daniel POLAR 2 Aircraft AC 147 CC-BY-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Project PI: Daniel Steinhage (AWI) 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 -- The KML files are in EPSG:4326, and the quicklook images show the AGC product of the radargram. Season Season Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Season Profile ID Profile ID Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Profile ID Instrument Instrument Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Instrument Radar product Radar prod Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Radar prod netCDF file netCDF https://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6 Ice Thickness Radar radio-echo sounding RES [Nixdorf et al. 1999] https://doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821346 Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html netCDF netCDF file (File Size) netCDF (Size) Bytes https://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6 Ice Thickness Radar radio-echo sounding RES [Nixdorf et al. 1999] https://doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821346 Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html netCDF (Size) [Bytes] GIS file GIS Ice Thickness Radar radio-echo sounding RES [Nixdorf et al. 1999] https://doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821346 Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html KML Files GIS Image IMAGE Ice Thickness Radar radio-echo sounding RES [Nixdorf et al. 1999] https://doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821346 Steinhage Daniel Daniel.Steinhage@awi.de https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/staff/single-view/daniel-steinhage.html Quicklook IMAGE CurationLevelC Enhanced curation https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Curation_levels citable AWI EMR Greenland ice sheet Polar 2 radio-echo sounding author10398 author104825 author10505 author113739 author113740 author26346 author27488 author30625 author33194 author33291 author36179 author36180 author36716 author36717 author40917 author51121 author52499 author53726 author56843 author56845 author59362 author62 author699 author72169 author72859 author72860 author78245 author79235 author855 author99244 basis4669 campaign3380165 campaign34107 curlevel30 event2831826 event2831827 event2831828 event2831829 event2831830 event2831831 event2831832 event2831833 event2831834 event2831835 event2831836 event2831837 geocode1599 geocode1600 geocode1601 inst32 journal1111 journal4140 license21 method10713 method12358 param150836 param16118 param513666 param516439 param541163 param54969 param87498 pi26346 ref102460 ref130079 ref136739 refds972094 term49926 term51910 term71527 term75171