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Abstract Subglacial water threatens the stability of a deep ice sheet. The Greenland ice sheet has been the subject of extensive radar surveys under NASA’s PARCA program and others, yet the extent of basal water has not previously been explored in detail. This paper provides a method for recovering basal radar reflection characteristics that yield robust discrimination of subglacial water, using PARCA data, by narrowing the spread of measured echo intensities. Sources of validation are provided, and they support the procedure and its results. The method can be extended to the entire Greenland radar dataset. It is not dependent on details of radar characteristics but relies on sufficient penetration performance, high-fidelity data acquisition and appropriate treatment of signals and interface statistics.
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