Polar Monitor - Ice sheet drainage basins - Antarctica, 2010-2021

The drainage divides of ice sheets separate the overall glaciated area into multiple sectors. These drainage basins are essential for partitioning mass changes of the ice sheet, as they specify the area over which basin specific measurements are integrated. In (Krieger et al., 2020) we developed a modified watershed algorithm for delineating individual glaciers and applied it to the Northeast Greenland sector. Here we extended the processing to the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Suggested Data Citation
German Aerospace Center (DLR) (2025): Polar Monitor - Ice sheet drainage basins - Antarctica, 2010-2021. https://doi.org/10.15489/kel9qeeou202
Coverage
Geographic Boundaries
North:	-64.00°
West:	-180.00°
East:	180.00°
South:	-90.00°
Time Period
Start date:	2010-01-01
End date:	2021-12-31
More Information
Keywords:	DLR, EOC, Catchments, Drainage Basins, Watershed, Glacier, Ice Sheet, Antarctica
Contact:	geoservice@dlr.de
Access / Use Restriction:	License
Data Use Guidelines	Creative Commons BY 4.0
Links
Mission / Project Information
DOI (of Dataset)	https://doi.org/10.15489/kel9qeeou202 Digital Object Identifier
EOC Geoservice Dataset Landing Page	https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/datasets/pm_ant Dataset Landing Page
Downloading Data
HTTP Download (Polar Monitor Antarctica)	https://download.geoservice.dlr.de/POLAR_MONITOR/files/Antarctica/ HTTP Download