Monthly Iceberg Calving Dataset of the Antarctic Ice Shelves (2010-2019)

QI Mengzhen1,2,3LIU Yan1,2,3CHENG Xiao*2,3,4FENG Qiyang1LIN Yijing1,3WEI Yi1,2,3YANG Chen1,2,3HUI Fengming2,3,4CHEN Zhuoqi2,3,4LI Xinqing2,3,4ZHANG Yuanyuan1,2,3ZHANG Ying1,2,3CHEN Xintong1,3LIU Aobo1,2,3CHEN Yating1,2,3GUAN Zhenfu1,3YE Yue1,3SHANG Xinyi1,2,3TIAN Jiahui1,2,3DUAN Meihui1,3ZHANG Zhuoyu1,2,3

1 State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science，College of Global Change and Earth System Science，Beijing Normal University，Beijing 100875，China2 Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory，Zhuhai 519082，China3 University Corporation for Polar Research，Beijing 100875，China4 School of Geospatial Engineering and Science，Sun Yat-Sen University，Zhuhai 519082，China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2020.04.13.V1

Published:Jul. 2020

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Key Words：

Antarctica,ice shelves,iceberg calving,remote sensing,Global Ecosystem and Environment Observation Analysis Research Cooperation

Abstract：

Iceberg calving is a major way for the Antarctic mass loss, it has been also regarded as a crucial variable in precisely evaluating the mass balance of ice shelves. The multi-source remote sensing data at the beginning of each month from August 2010 to August 2019 were used at this study, the monthly calving events that occurred between August 2010 and August 2019,l 109 months in total, through vector segmentation, and calculated their area, thickness, mass, and calving period throughspatial computing to obtain the monthly iceberg calving dataset of the Antarctic ice shelves (2010-2019). The dataset was composed of monthly data and a polar night data, which includes the distribution of monthly calving events, along with the calving year, calving month, length, area, thickness, mass, calving period, and calving types. This dataset is archived in .shp format and consists of 104 data files, with a data size of 4.31 MB (compresses to one file, 1.59 MB).Browse

Foundation Item：

National Natural Science Foundation of China (41925027)

Data Citation：

QI Mengzhen, LIU Yan, CHENG Xiao*, FENG Qiyang, LIN Yijing, WEI Yi, YANG Chen, HUI Fengming, CHEN Zhuoqi, LI Xinqing, ZHANG Yuanyuan, ZHANG Ying, CHEN Xintong, LIU Aobo, CHEN Yating, GUAN Zhenfu, YE Yue, SHANG Xinyi, TIAN Jiahui, DUAN Meihui, ZHANG Zhuoyu. Monthly Iceberg Calving Dataset of the Antarctic Ice Shelves (2010-2019)[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2020.04.13.V1.

QI Mengzhen, LIU Yan, CHENG Xiao, et al. Monthly iceberg calving dataset of the Antarctic ice shelves (2010-2019) [J]. Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodp.2020.03.01.

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