N: -60 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Description
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides maps of Antarctic ice shelves, Antarctic basins, and the Antarctic coastline. The maps are assembled from 2008-2009 ice-front data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) ALOS PALSAR and European Space Agency's ENVISAT ASAR data, acquired during International Polar Years 2007-2009 (IPY); the InSAR-based grounding line data (MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry), augmented with other grounding line sources; the Antarctic ice velocity map (MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Antarctica Ice Velocity Map); and the Bedmap-2 DEM.
See <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/measures/aiv">Antarctic Ice Sheet Velocity and Mapping Data</a> for related data.
Version Description
- Added the basins IMBIE 2016 and refined
- Updated and expanded the attribute lists
- Changed grounding lines for Crosson/Dotson ice shelves based on Sentinel-1A
- Added 15 new small ice shelves
- Added missing ice rises on Larsen-C, Riiser-Larsen, Quar, Atka, Fimbul, Crosson, Borchgrevink, Beaudouin, and Pine Island ice shelves
- Fixed an issue with Wordie ice shelf boundaries (Cape Jeremy basin)
- Fixed an issue with Larsen A ice shelf, Drygalski glacier
- Fixed small gaps between polygons
- Updated names of the ice shelves (each polygon has a specific name)
- Removed grounded polygon from IceBoundaries (provided by GroundingLine_Antarctica shapefile)
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| Data-driven bed rheology enhances retreat on Thwaites Glacier |
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| Assessing the Likelihood of Unprecedented Antarctic Heat in the Current Climate |
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| Determining the Character of Subglacial Sediments in the IceBedrock Interface Zone of Antarctica Using HorizontaltoVertical Spectral Ratios (HVSRs) of Seismic Ambient Noise |
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| A fan-shaped subglacial basin province in East Antarctica formed by rotational extension |
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| Pinning-point buttressing and century-scale stability of the LambertAmery system, 20202100 |
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| Emergent decadal predictability in Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise |
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| DeepMelt-GL v1: a neural network emulator of sub-shelf melt rates for the unrepresented regions of ice-shelf cavities in ocean models |
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| Glacier surges on James Ross Island, Antarctica, and their relationship with climate |
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| Evaluation of meltwater-over-accumulation ratio as a predictor of surface ponding on Antarctic ice shelves |
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| Basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves from 2012 to 2023 derived from CryoSat-2 |
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| Acoustic detection of underwater air bubbles generated by breaking waves in an Antarctic polynya |
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| Mass Loss From Thwaites Glacier Continues Even Without Ocean Melting |
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| The Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica |
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| Oceanographic influences and high productivity recorded in a coastal bay of the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, during the Holocene |
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| Machine-Learning Emulation of the Modeled Basal Thermal State for Totten Glacier |
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| Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming |
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| Mapping Antarctic geothermal heat flow with deep neural networks optimized by particle swarm optimization algorithm |
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| Evaluating CMIP6 models for near-surface air temperature projections over Antarctic ice shelves |
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| Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate |
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| Estimating Antarctic surface melt rates using passive microwave data calibrated with weather station observations |
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| Assessing future ice shelf hydrofracture vulnerability in the ISMIP6 ensemble |
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| Quantifying temperature-sliding inconsistency in thermomechanical coupling: a comparative analysis of geothermal heat flux datasets at Totten Glacier |
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| Rapid deglacial retreat of a regional scale ice stream and late Holocene readvance in Vincennes Bay, east Antarctica |
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| Variability in ice shelf basal melting in the Amundsen Sea Embayment |
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| Winter meltwater storage on Antarctica's George VI Ice Shelf and tributary glaciers, from synthetic aperture radar |
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