A global, high-resolution data set of ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and ocean bathymetry

Schaffer, Janin; Timmermann, Ralph; Arndt, Jan Erik; Kristensen, Steen Savstrup; Mayer, Christoph; Morlighem, Mathieu; Steinhage, Daniel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-543-2016

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-543-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-543-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

26 Oct 2016

| 26 Oct 2016

A global, high-resolution data set of ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and ocean bathymetry

Janin Schaffer, Ralph Timmermann, Jan Erik Arndt, Steen Savstrup Kristensen, Christoph Mayer, Mathieu Morlighem, and Daniel Steinhage

Data sets

Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and global bathymetry (RTopo-2) Schaffer, J. and Timmermann, R. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856844

Short summary

The RTopo-2 data set provides consistent maps of global ocean bathymetry and ice surface topographies for Greenland and Antarctica at 30 arcsec grid spacing. We corrected data from earlier products in the areas of Petermann, Hagen Bræ, and Helheim glaciers, incorporated original data for the floating ice tongue of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, and applied corrections for the geometry of Getz, Abbot, and Fimbul ice shelf cavities. The data set is available from the PANGAEA database.