West Antarctic Peninsula seasonal ice velocity products supporting "Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula"
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Christie, Frazer DW
Willis, Ian C
Wuite, Jan
Nagler, Thomas
Description
This dataset contains the seasonal ice velocity products calculated from SAR- and optically derived velocity fields of land ice draining to George VI Ice Shelf. The dataset is provided in TIFF image (.tiff) format.
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Data are presented in EPSG:3031 Antarctic Polar Stereographic projection. Units are in meters. (Refer to: https://epsg.io/3031 for further information). Data can can be read by most geographical information systems (e.g. QGIS, ESRI ArcGIS, GMT, etc.)
Keywords
Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, George VI Ice Shelf, Glaciology, Ice Sheet, Landsat 8, Remote Sensing, Sentinel-1, Velocity
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NERC (NE/S007164/1)
This research was undertaken while KB was in receipt of a United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council PhD studentship awarded through the University of Cambridge C-CLEAR Doctoral Training Partnership (grant number: NE/S007164/1). This work was also produced with financial assistance (to FDWC) of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and (to ICW) from the United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council awarded to the University of Cambridge (grant number: NE/T006234/1). TN and JW acknowledge support from the European Space Agency through the Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (CCI) program.