Measured Properties of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Surface Configuration, Ice Thickness, Volume and Bedrock Characteristics
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Annals of Glaciology
- Vol. 3, 83-91
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260305500002573
Abstract
Results of airborne radio echo-sounding (RES) in Antarctica are presented. Flight tracks covering 50% of the Antarctic Ice sheet on a 50 to 100 km square grid, flown using Inertial navigation, have errors <6km3. Frequency distributions for subgladal bedrock elevations for East and West Antarctica are presented. They conform approximately to Gaussian (normal) functions.Keywords
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