AntADatabase

Radar isochrones of Antarctica, in one database

The AntADatabase gathers the published internal reflecting horizons (IRHs, or isochrones) traced in ice-penetrating radar data across Antarctica, with their ages, in one uniform format. It is built for ice sheet modellers and glaciologists who need consistent, dated layers to constrain their models, and grows as new datasets of the AntArchitecture community are published.

3D view of Antarctica with radar isochrones coloured by age

3D viewer

Explore the isochrones in 3D under the ice surface, over the Bedmap3 bed. Hover a line for its dataset, age and citation, and filter by age or dataset. Nothing to install.

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Python-powered SQL database

The anta_database package: query the isochrones by dataset, institute, age, region or basin, plot them on maps and along flight lines, and load them into your own analysis.

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Download the data

Free to download. We recommend the Python package, which downloads the whole database and keeps it up to date. You can also choose datasets in the catalogue and get them in one zip file.

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Submit your data Coming soon

Published isochrones that are not in the database yet? Soon you will be able to submit them here, with their metadata, to be added to the next release.

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