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Kowalewski, Stefan; Helm, Veit; Morris, Elizabeth Mary; Eisen, Olaf (2021): Surface mass balance of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica over the period 2005-2014, derived from airborne radar soundings and neutron probe measurements [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927004

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Abstract:
Airborne radar soundings of internal reflection layers were collected across the Pine Island (PIG) catchment area, West Antarctica, aboard the Polar 5 aircraft between 01 and 03 Dec 2014. An isochronal reflection layer was traced for a total distance of 2367 km to determine annual mean surface mass balance (SMB) for the period from approx. Nov 2004 to Dec 2014. Vertical firn density profiles were collected during the same measurement season along the flight track in the frame of the iSTAR campaign by means of Neutron Probe (NP) measurements. Annual markers were extracted from these profiles and used for the layer dating. A regional scale density-depth profile was estimated from all NP measurements and used for the conversion of two-way travel times (TWT) of the traced layer to mean annual SMB. Catchment wide SMB interpolation estimates were calculated by means of an ordinary logarithmic kriging (OLK) algorithm, which is applied to the alongtrack SMB estimates. Due to a data gap in the southern interior of PIG, complementary SMB estimates from RACMO (doi:10.5194/tc-12-1479-2018) and MAR (doi:10.5194/tc-14-229-2020) regional climate models were used to produce a catchment wide mean annual SMB map. Amongst others, total mass input can be derived from this map to assess the mass balance of PIG for the considered SMB averaging period. This dataset includes the level 1b processed radargrams, the traced layer in units of TWT and mean annual SMB, and SMB OLK maps. The latter include error grids as well as the partitioning map between OLK SMB estimates and complementary simulated SMB estimates for the PIG catchment area.
Keyword(s):
Airborne Radar; ASIRAS; Pine Island Glacier; SMB; surface mass balance
Supplement to:
Kowalewski, Stefan; Helm, Veit; Morris, Elizabeth Mary; Eisen, Olaf (2021): The regional-scale surface mass balance of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, over the period 2005–2014, derived from airborne radar soundings and neutron probe measurements. The Cryosphere, 15(3), 1285-1305, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1285-2021
Further details:
Surface mass balance of Pine Island Glacier - ReadMe and Metadata
Donat-Magnin, Marion; Jourdain, Nicolas C; Gallée, Hubert; Amory, Charles; Kittel, Christoph; Fettweis, Xavier; Wille, Jonathan D; Favier, Vincent; Drira, Amine; Agosta, Cécile (2020): Interannual variability of summer surface mass balance and surface melting in the Amundsen sector, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 14, 229-249, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-229-2020
van Wessem, Jan Melchior; van de Berg, Willem Jan; Noël, Brice P Y; van Meijgaard, Erik; Amory, Charles; Birnbaum, Gerit; Jakobs, Constantijn L; Krüger, Konstantin; Lenaerts, Jan T M; Lhermitte, Stef; Ligtenberg, Stefan R M; Medley, Brooke; Reijmer, Carleen H; Van Tricht, Kristof; Trusel, L D; Wouters, Bert; van Ulft, Hubertus H; Wuite, Jan; van den Broeke, Michiel R (2018): Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016). The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1479-1498, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1479-2018
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -75.265692 * Median Longitude: -93.439438 * South-bound Latitude: -79.758250 * West-bound Longitude: -100.775130 * North-bound Latitude: -67.566470 * East-bound Longitude: -68.128550
Date/Time Start: 2014-12-01T16:59:00 * Date/Time End: 2014-12-03T16:47:00
Comment:
The results include complementary model results according to Donat-Magnin et al. (2020) and van Wessem et al. (2018).
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156102. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926973
  2. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156103. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926975
  3. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156104. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926976
  4. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156106. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926977
  5. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156107. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926978
  6. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156108. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927000
  7. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156109. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926999
  8. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156110. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926983
  9. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156112. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926984
  10. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156113. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926986
  11. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156114. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926987
  12. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156115. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926988
  13. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156116. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926989
  14. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156117. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926990
  15. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156119. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926991
  16. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156120. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926992
  17. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156121. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926993
  18. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156122. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926994
  19. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156124. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926995
  20. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156125. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926996
  21. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Picked reflection layer data, ASIRAS Flight Profile: 20156126. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926997
  22. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Gridded SMB and error maps of Pine Island Glacier. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927001
  23. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): ASIRAS Level 1b radargrams of Pine Island Glacier. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926968
  24. Kowalewski, S; Helm, V; Morris, EM et al. (2021): Smoothed alongtrack SMB estimates considered for krige estimation, which yields the gridded SMB maps. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927002