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Kongsvegen, Svalbard: late quiescent-stage glacier geometry and dynamics
This dataset consists of a bed DEM and four velocity maps of Kongsvegen, a surge-type glacier in Svalbard. The bed DEM was generated from ground-penetrating radar surveys in spring 2016 and 2018, and the velocity maps span the period Dec 2017 to Feb 2019. The velocity maps show the initial speed-up of the glacier as it transitions from quiescence to surge.
Data acquisition was funded by NERC Urgency Grant NE/R018243/1 REBUS (Resolving Enthalpy Budget to Understand Surges).
Simple
- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01334
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-06-04
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01334
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Motion/Ice Sheet Motion
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Velocity
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Kongsvegen
- Svalbard
- glacier
- surge
- Use limitation
- This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Elevation
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 2016-01-01
- End date
- 2019-02-28
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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The ice thickness and bed elevation data are accurate to +/- 10 m.
Uncertainties in ice surface velocity are estimated to be 0.4m per day, and comprise co-registration error (±0.2 pixels) and error arising from smoothing of the velocity field over the feature-tracking window size (400x400 m).
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01334 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-06-04
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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