Contribution of continental-scale ice dynamics processes to freshwater fluxes
This dataset provides spatially and temporally standardized freshwater fluxes from Antarctic ice shelves, together with ice-shelf integrated estimates. It combines five complementary products: a GeoPackage of ice-shelf calving fluxes, two CSV tables of integrated basal melt rates and associated uncertainties, and two gridded NetCDF products containing spatially distributed calving and basal melting rates. The gridded products use the BedMachine v3 Antarctic grid in polar stereographic projection (EPSG:3031) at 500 m pixel size. The dataset was produced in support of OCEAN ICE Deliverable D3.1.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-06-04
- Citation identifier
- 10.5281/zenodo.15590997
- Purpose
- To provide standardized estimates of Antarctic ice-shelf freshwater fluxes from calving and basal melting for use in ocean and ice-sheet studies.
- Credit
- This dataset was produced within the OCEAN ICE project (Ocean-Cryosphere Exchanges in Antarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth System), funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101060452.
- Status
- Completed
Originator
Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) - Romain Millan ()
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 500
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords (Theme)
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- freshwater flux
- ice shelf
- calving
- basal melting
- ice shelf mass balance
- Antarctic Ice Sheet
- OCEAN ICE
- Keywords (Place)
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- Antarctica
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords
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- FRESH WATER FLUX
- ICE SHELVES
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- The 500 m spatial resolution and EPSG:3031 reference system apply to the two gridded NetCDF products. The collection also contains vector (GeoPackage) and tabular (CSV) products. Temporal coverage varies among files; integrated basal melting rates include 1992 and 1994–2017.
Content Information
Property description
- Abstract
- false
Elements
- Definition
- Definition
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
- GeoPackage
- CSV
- OnLine resource
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D3.1 freshwater flux datasets on Zenodo
Zenodo repository record providing the complete D3.1 dataset collection, DOI, README, and downloadable NetCDF, GeoPackage and CSV files.
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- Freshwater flux products were assembled from open-source Antarctic ice-shelf datasets. Ice-shelf boundaries and naming follow Mouginot et al. (2017). Calving fluxes use ice-front position changes and steady-state flux information based on Greene et al. (2022), with associated uncertainty estimates. Basal melt rates and uncertainties are based on Paolo et al. (2023). Spatially distributed calving and basal-melt fields were standardized onto the BedMachine v3 Antarctic polar stereographic grid (EPSG:3031) at 500 m pixel size. Ice-shelf integrated values and their uncertainties are also provided as tabular products.
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/3031
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/3fdf5f01-5012-442d-90ef-e8aadf4432cc
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- anyValidURI
Point of contact
ETT S.p.A. - ()
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
- https://catalog.s4oceanice.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/3fdf5f01-5012-442d-90ef-e8aadf4432cc
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-08-26T15:38:35
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-08-26T15:21:41
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
Not available