Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica
Zirizzotti, Achille
- 1UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)
- 2University of Bern
- 3University of Western Australia
- 4University of Bristol
- 5Columbia University
- 6Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
- 7University of Edinburgh
- 8University of Texas System
- 9
- 10University of Washington
- 11Polar Research Institute of China
- 12Fed Inst Geosci & Nat Resources
- 13Helmholtz Association
- 14Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
- 15Technical University of Denmark
- 16Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) - India
- 17University of Alabama System
- 18Colorado School of Mines
- 19Amherst College
- 20University of Arizona
- 21Saint Olaf College
- 22Northumbria University
- 23Australian Antarctic Division
- 24Norwegian Polar Institute
- 25National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
- 26Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
- 27Asiaq
- 28Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
- 29Inst Geol & Mineral Resources World Ocean
- 30University of Kansas
- 31University of California System
- 32State University System of Florida
- 33Dartmouth College
- 34Oceanbox Io
- 35Universite Libre de Bruxelles
- 36Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedit
- 37University of York - UK
- 38Universidad de Chile
- 39Newcastle University - UK
- 40Stanford University
- 41University of Exeter
Journal
Scientific data
ISSN
2052-4463
Open Access
gold
Volume
12
We present Bedmap3, the latest suite of gridded products describing surface elevation, ice-thickness and the seafloor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60 degrees S. Bedmap3 incorporates and adds to all post-1950s datasets previously used for Bedmap2, including 84 new aero-geophysical surveys by 15 data providers, an additional 52 million data points and 1.9 million line-kilometres of measurement. These efforts have filled notable gaps including in major mountain ranges and the deep interior of East Antarctica, along West Antarctic coastlines and on the Antarctic Peninsula. Our new Bedmap3/RINGS grounding line similarly consolidates multiple recent mappings into a single, spatially coherent feature. Combined with updated maps of surface topography, ice shelf thickness, rock outcrops and bathymetry, Bedmap3 reveals in much greater detail the subglacial landscape and distribution of Antarctica's ice, providing new opportunities to interpret continental-scale landscape evolution and to model the past and future evolution of the Antarctic ice sheets.
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