ADVANCES IN POLAR SCIENCE ›› 2009, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (1): 48-59.

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SCATTERING FEATURES ANALYSES OF THE SHALLOW ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET BASED ON ICE-PENETRATING RADAR METHOD:A CASE-STUDY ALONG THE ZHONGSHAN STATION-DOME A TRANSECT

JIANG Yun-Yun, SUN Bei, KE Chang-Jing, CUI Xiang-Bin, TANG Hua-Yuan, GUO Jing-Hua, ZHANG Xiang-Pei   

  1. 1 School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences of Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093; China; 2 Polar Research Institute of China; Shanghai 200136; China
  • Online:2009-03-30 Published:2009-03-30

Abstract:

Radio-echo detecting ice sheet is one of the most significant progresses in Antarctic ice sheet researches in recent 20 years. Ice-penetrating radar is a convenient and significant method to image and analyze the properties of Antarctic ice sheet internal structure. This research used the two-frequency (60 MHz and 179 MHz) radar to detect the radar internal reflection strata. The variations of the received power within 100—700 m of the ice sheet surface along the Zhongshan-Dome A transect showed that: the r...

Key words: ice-penetrating radar, Zhongshan-Dome A transect, shallow ice sheet, scattering, East Antarctica