Ground-Penetrating Radar Reveals Ice Thickness and Undisturbed Englacial Layers at Kilimanjaro's Northern Ice Field

Bohleber, Pascal and Sold, Leo and Hardy, Douglas R. and Schwikowski, Margit and Klenk, Patrick and Fischer, Andrea and Sirguey, Pascal and Cullen, Nicolas J. and Potocki, Mariusz and Hoffmann, Helene and Mayewski, Paul (2017) Ground-Penetrating Radar Reveals Ice Thickness and Undisturbed Englacial Layers at Kilimanjaro's Northern Ice Field. The Cryosphere, 11 (1), pp. 469-482. Copernicus Publications. doi: 10.5194/tc-11-469-2017. ISSN 1994-0416.

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Abstract

Our study is the first to use ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to investigate ice thickness and internal layering at Kilimanjaro's largest ice body, the Northern Ice Field (NIF). For monitoring the ongoing ice loss, our ice thickness soundings allowed us to estimate the total ice volume remaining at NIF's southern portion. Englacial GPR reflections indicate undisturbed layers within NIF's center and provide a first link between age information obtained from ice coring and vertical wall sampling.

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Document Type:

Article

Title:

Ground-Penetrating Radar Reveals Ice Thickness and Undisturbed Englacial Layers at Kilimanjaro's Northern Ice Field

Authors:

Authors	Institution or Email of Authors	Author's ORCID iD	ORCID Put Code
Bohleber, Pascal	Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Sold, Leo	Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hardy, Douglas R.	Climate System Research Center and Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Schwikowski, Margit	Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Klenk, Patrick	German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8284-2265	UNSPECIFIED
Fischer, Andrea	Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Sirguey, Pascal	National School of Surveying, University of Otago, New Zealand	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Cullen, Nicolas J.	Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Potocki, Mariusz	Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hoffmann, Helene	Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mayewski, Paul	Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED

Date:

9 February 2017

Journal or Publication Title:

The Cryosphere

Refereed publication:

Yes

Open Access:

Yes

Gold Open Access:

Yes

In SCOPUS:

Yes

In ISI Web of Science:

Yes

Volume:

DOI:

10.5194/tc-11-469-2017

Page Range:

pp. 469-482

Publisher:

Copernicus Publications

ISSN:

1994-0416

Status:

Published

Keywords:

Ground-Penetrating Radar, GPR, ice thickness, glacier stratigraphy, Kilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro's Northern Ice Field, Age-depth information

HGF - Research field:

Aeronautics, Space and Transport

HGF - Program:

Space

HGF - Program Themes:

Earth Observation

DLR - Research area:

Raumfahrt

DLR - Program:

R EO - Earth Observation

DLR - Research theme (Project):

R - Vorhaben Tandem-L Vorstudien (old)

Location:

Oberpfaffenhofen

Institutes and Institutions:

Microwaves and Radar Institute > Spaceborne SAR Systems

Deposited By:

Klenk, Dr. Patrick

Deposited On:

10 Apr 2017 14:55

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26 Nov 2021 18:59

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