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dc.contributor.authorRathmann, Nicholas M.
dc.contributor.authorLilien, David A.
dc.contributor.authorGrinsted, Aslak
dc.contributor.authorGerber, Tamara A.
dc.contributor.authorYoung, Tun Jan
dc.contributor.authorDahl-Jensen, Dorthe
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-17T10:30:08Z
dc.date.available2023-04-17T10:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-16
dc.identifier284141813
dc.identifierb2e1c4d1-f1a1-4509-ab17-31ed4ce194b8
dc.identifier85122743229
dc.identifier.citationRathmann , N M , Lilien , D A , Grinsted , A , Gerber , T A , Young , T J & Dahl-Jensen , D 2022 , ' On the limitations of using polarimetric radar sounding to infer the crystal orientation fabric of ice masses ' , Geophysical Research Letters , vol. 49 , no. 1 , e2021GL096244 . https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl096244en
dc.identifier.issn0094-8276
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: Rathmann_2022
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5865-3459/work/133734040
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27406
dc.descriptionFunding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the Villum Investigator grant no. 16572 as part of the IceFlow project.en
dc.description.abstractWe introduce a transfer matrix model for radio-wave propagation through layered anisotropic ice that permits an arbitrary dielectric permittivity tensor in each layer. The model is used to investigate how crystal orientation fabrics without a vertical principal direction affect polarimetric radar returns over glaciers and ice sheets. By expanding the c-axis orientation distribution in terms of a spherical harmonic series, we find that radar returns from synthetic fabric profiles are relatively insensitive to the harmonic mode responsible for a nonvertical principal direction; however, only for normally incident waves. Consequently, the strength of this mode might be relatively difficult to infer in glaciers and ice sheets, which in turn has implications for the ability to determine the full second-order structure tensor, needed to infer the local flow regime, flow history, or to represent the directional viscosity structure of glacier ice for ice-flow modeling.
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dc.format.extent1454582
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofGeophysical Research Lettersen
dc.subjectRadio wave modelingen
dc.subjectAnisotropic iceen
dc.subjectIce sheetsen
dc.subjectGB Physical geographyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccGBen
dc.titleOn the limitations of using polarimetric radar sounding to infer the crystal orientation fabric of ice massesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl096244
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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