Ice Velocity

Description: Gridded estimates of ice velocity from the MEaSUREs Phase-Based Antarctica Ice Velocity Map.

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Dataset:

Mouginot, J., E. Rignot, and B. Scheuchl. “MEaSUREs Phase Map of Antarctic Ice Velocity, Version 1.” NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5067/PZ3NJ5RXRH10.

Associated paper:

Mouginot, J., E. Rignot, and B. Scheuchl. “Continent‐wide, Interferometric SAR Phase, Mapping of Antarctic Ice Velocity.” Geophysical Research Letters 46, no. 16 (2019): 9710–18. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083826.

%%capture
%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

from polartoolkit import fetch, maps, utils

data = fetch.ice_vel(
    hemisphere="south",
    # available options
    spacing=5e3,
    # region,
    # spacing,
    # registration ("g" for gridline or "p" for pixel),
)
_ = utils.get_grid_info(data, print_info=True)

grid spacing: 5000.0 m
grid region: (-2800000.0, 2795000.0, -2795000.0, 2800000.0)
grid zmin: 2.87566308543e-05
grid zmax: 4201.68994141
grid registration: g

fig = maps.plot_grd(
    data,
    title="Ice Velocity",
    cmap="magma",
    cpt_lims=(0.001, 3),
    cpt_log=True,
    cbar_log=True,
    coast=True,
    cbar_label="meters/year",
    hemisphere="south",
)

fig.show(dpi=200)