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Typical CryoSat radargram of an overflight of Great Slave Lake in April 2018. Distance in km along the track is displayed on the x‐axis. Waveform delay time is plotted on the y-axis, converted to two‐way travel distance. Figure indicates a thickness of 1.3 m. Grey scale shows normalised power from 0 to 1. Figure from Beckers et al. (2017).
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