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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Publications Citing This Dataset
| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Substantial contribution of slush to meltwater area across Antarctic ice shelves | Dell, Rebecca L., Willis, Ian C., Arnold, Neil S., Banwell, Alison F., de Roda Husman, Sophie | Ice Velocity, Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Thwaites Glacier thins and retreats fastest where ice-shelf channels intersect its grounding zone | Chartrand, Allison M., Howat, Ian M., Joughin, Ian R., Smith, Benjamin E. | Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Grounding Line, Basins, Coastline, Ice Shelves, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Firn Air Content, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Ice Velocity | |
| Using specularity content to evaluate eight geothermal heat flow maps of Totten Glacier | Huang, Yan, Zhao, Liyun, Wolovick, Michael, Ma, Yiliang, Moore, John C. | Ice Velocity, Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Firn Air Content, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation | |
| Towards the systematic reconnaissance of seismic signals from glaciers and ice sheetsPart 2: Unsupervised learning for source process characterization | Latto, Rebecca B., Turner, Ross J., Reading, Anya M., Cook, Sue, Kulessa, Bernd, Winberry, J. Paul | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Widespread increase in discharge from West Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 2018 | Davison, Benjamin J., Hogg, Anna E., Moffat, Carlos, Meredith, Michael P., Wallis, Benjamin J. | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Firn Air Content, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation | |
| Amundsen Sea Embayment ice-sheet mass-loss predictions to 2050 calibrated using observations of velocity and elevation change | Bevan, Suzanne, Cornford, Stephen, Gilbert, Lin, Otosaka, Ines, Martin, Daniel, Surawy-Stepney, Trystan | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Ice Velocity | |
| An automated algorithm to retrieve the location and depth of supraglacial lakes from ICESat-2 ATL03 data | Xiao, Wanxin, Hui, Fengming, Cheng, Xiao, Liang, Qi | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Bathymetry and bed conditions of Lago Subglacial CECs, West Antarctica | Brisbourne, A. M., Smith, A. M., Rivera, A., Zamora, R., Napoleoni, F., Uribe, J. A., Ortega, M. | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Inter-decadal climate variability induces differential ice response along Pacific-facing West Antarctica | Christie, Frazer D. W., Steig, Eric J., Gourmelen, Noel, Tett, Simon F. B., Bingham, Robert G. | Grounding Line, Basins, Coastline, Ice Shelves, Ice Velocity | |
| Globally consistent estimates of high-resolution Antarctic ice mass balance and spatially-resolved glacial isostatic adjustment | Willen, Matthias O., Horwath, Martin, Buchta, Eric, Scheinert, Mirko, Helm, Veit, Uebbing, Bernd, Kusche, Jurgen | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Physical and Biogeochemical Properties of Rotten East Antarctic Summer | Corkill, M., Moreau, S., Janssens, J., Fraser, A. D., Heil, P., Tison, J.L., Cougnon, E. A., Genovese, C., Kimura, N., Meiners, K. M., Wongpan, P., Lannuzel, D. | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Model insights into bed control on retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica | Schwans, Emily, Parizek, Byron R., Alley, Richard B., Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Morlighem, Mathieu M. | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Oscillatory response of Larsen C Ice Shelf flow to the calving of iceberg A-68 | Deakin, Katherine A., Christie, Frazer D. W., Boxall, Karla, Willis, Ian C. | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Quantifying AntarcticWide IceShelf Surface Melt Volume Using Microwave and Firn Model Data: 1980 to 2021 | Banwell, Alison F., Wever, Nander, Dunmire, Devon, Picard, Ghislain | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Sea level rise from West Antarctic mass loss significantly modified by large snowfall anomalies | Davison, Benjamin J., Hogg, Anna E., Rigby, Richard, Veldhuijsen, Sanne, van Wessem, Jan Melchior, van den Broeke, Michiel R., Holland, Paul R., Selley, Heather L., Dutrieux, Pierre | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Ice Velocity, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Firn Air Content, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation | |
| Remote Sensing of Surface Melt on Antarctica: Opportunities and Challenges | Husman, Sophie de Roda, Hu, Zhongyang, Wouters, Bert, Munneke, Peter Kuipers, Veldhuijsen, Sanne, Lhermitte, Stef | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Brightness Temperature | |
| Suppressed basal melting in the eastern Thwaites Glacier grounding zone | Davis, Peter E. D., Nicholls, Keith W., Holland, David M., Schmidt, Britney E., Washam, Peter, Riverman, Kiya L., Arthern, Robert J., Vankova, Irena, Eayrs, Clare, Smith, James A., Anker, Paul G. D., Mullen, Andrew D., Dichek, Daniel, Lawrence, Justin D., Meister, Matthew M., Clyne, Elisabeth, Basinski-Ferris, Aurora, Rignot, Eric, Queste, Bastien Y., Boehme, Lars, Heywood, Karen J., Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Makinson, Keith | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Unprecedented mass gain over the Antarctic ice sheet between 2021 and 2022 caused by large precipitation anomalies | Wang, Wei, Shen, Yunzhong, Chen, Qiujie, Wang, Fengwei | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Unraveling the optical shape of snow | Robledano, Alvaro, Picard, Ghislain, Dumont, Marie, Flin, Frederic, Arnaud, Laurent, Libois, Quentin | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves | Paolo, Fernando S., Gardner, Alex S., Greene, Chad A., Nilsson, Johan, Schodlok, Michael P., Schlegel, Nicole-Jeanne, Fricker, Helen A. | Ice Velocity, Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Firn Air Content, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Growth/Melt, Mass Balance | |
| Application of visual stratigraphy from line-scan images to constrain | Dey, Rahul, Thamban, Meloth, Laluraj, Chavarukonam Madhavanpillai, Mahalinganathan, Kanthanathan, Redkar, Bhikaji Laxman, Kumar, Sudhir, Matsuoka, Kenichi | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Antarctic Ice Mass Change (2003-2016) Jointly Estimated by Satellite | Kim, ByeongHoon, Seo, KiWeon, Lee, ChoonKi, Kim, JaeSeung, Chen, Jianli, Wilson, Clark R. | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation | Christie, Frazer D. W., Benham, Toby J., Batchelor, Christine L., Rack, Wolfgang, Montelli, Aleksandr, Dowdeswell, Julian A. | Ice Velocity, Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves, Sea Ice Concentration | |
| An inventory of supraglacial lakes and channels across the West Antarctic Ice Sheet | Corr, Diarmuid, Leeson, Amber, McMillan, Malcolm, Zhang, Ce, Barnes, Thomas | Ice Velocity, Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves | |
| Beryllium isotope variations recorded in the Adelie Basin, East Antarctica reflect Holocene changes in ice dynamics, productivity, and scavenging efficiency | Behrens, Bethany C., Yokoyama, Yusuke, Miyairi, Yosuke, Sproson, Adam D., Yamane, Masako, Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J., McKay, Robert M., Johnson, Katelyn M., Escutia, Carlota, Dunbar, Robert B. | Basins, Coastline, Grounding Line, Ice Shelves |