Ibcao Bathymetry Data

rignot 2012-2013

Emodnet Dataset ID (LID)
0000130903
id
10335
Dataset name
rignot 2012-2013
File name
20230927/rignot-2012-2013-3996.xyz
Data format
xyz (tsv)
File size
1719272
Dataset version
3
Seabed source ID (SID)
1495
Seabed data category (TID)
Singlebeam — depth value collected by a single beam echo-sounder (code 10)
Included in IBCAO gridding
Yes (code 1)
IBCAO gridding layer weight
1000
Cruise ID
0
Cruise report
https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064236
Chief scientist
Rignot, Eric
Start date
2012
End date
2013
Date format
Only year (code Y)
Originator centre
University of California Irvine Department of Earth System Science
Data provider
University of California Irvine Department of Earth System Science
Spatial reference system
EPSG:3996
Horizontal resolution
1.1314
Abstract
Marine-terminating glaciers control most of Greenland's ice discharge into the ocean, but little is known about the geometry of their frontal regions. In this study we use side-looking, multibeam echo sounding observations to reveal that their frontal ice cliffs are grounded deeper below sea level than previously measured and their ice faces are neither vertical nor smooth but often undercut by the ocean and rough. Deep glacier grounding enables contact with subsurface, warm, salty Atlantic waters (AW) which melts ice at rates of meters per day. We detect cavities undercutting the base of the calving faces at the sites of subglacial water (SGW) discharge predicted by a hydrological model. The observed pattern of undercutting is consistent with numerical simulations of ice melt in which buoyant plumes of SGW transport warm AW to the ice faces. Glacier undercutting likely enhances iceberg calving, impacting ice front stability and, in turn, the glacier mass balance.
URL
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL064236
Operator who enters this information
marcus
File creation time
2023-09-27 10:54:02+00
Metadata modification time
2023-09-27 12:10:24.769984+00
Bounding box
POLYGON((-1728100.83720311 -1433904.69248431,-1728100.83720311 -1420799.38161927,-1717613.00151525 -1420799.38161927,-1717613.00151525 -1433904.69248431,-1728100.83720311 -1433904.69248431))
Color
#ebefe2
preprocess
https://git.bolin.su.se/rez/seabed2030-preprocess/-/blob/master/bedmachine_new_sources.py
Ibcao data status
finalising
Processing status
Final check, otherwise done.

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