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1. Airborne Radar-Derived Accumulation Rates over Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers [joughin_0631973]
This data set includes radar-derived annual accumulation rates over Thwaites Glacier between 1980 and 2009 and a gridded climatology (1985-2009) of snow accumulation over Pine Island and Thwaites ...


2. Subglacial Lakes and the Onset of Ice Streaming: Recovery Lakes [bell_0636883]
This award support a project to study the role that subglacial water plays in the overall stability of major ice sheets.


3. US ITASE-99-1 ice core (Research Funded by NSF OPP) [US_ITASE-99-1]   PARENT DIF
Sub-annually resolved ice core chemistry data from various sites on the Antarctic Ice Sheet were obtained from 1999 to 2008 during the US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) ...


4. Transient and Rapid Glacial Motions, including Glacial Earthquakes [rice_0739444]
(1) This award originally supported a project to study the mode of formation and causes of glacial earthquakes -- which we argued [Tsai et al., J. Geophys. Res., 2008] to be affiliated with iceberg ...


5. IPY: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate [steffen_0732946]
Our ground penetrating radar surveys focused on key structural features of the ice shelf, including basal crevasses, marine ice and rifts. Here we present our published work on basal crevasses. ...


6. Collaborative Research: Stable Isotopes of Ice in the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core [cuffey_0537661]
This award supports analyses of stable isotopes of water, dD, d18O and deuterium excess in the proposed West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS) deep ice core. The project will analyze a continuous ...


7. Collaborative Research: Molecular Level Characterization of Organic Matter in Ice Cores using High-resolution FTICR mass spectrometry [hatcher_0739684]
This award supports a project to fully develop the analytical protocols needed to exploit a relatively new technique for the analysis of soluble organic matter in ice core samples. The technique couples ...


8. Advanced Microstructural Characterization of Polar Ice Cores [baker_0738975]
This award supports a project to use advanced microscopic and spectroscopic techniques to explore critical questions about microstructure in ice cores, in particular the microstructural locations ...


9. Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica [albert_0538495]
This award supports a project of scientific investigations along two overland traverses in East Antarctica: one going from the Norwegian Troll Station (72deg. S, 2deg. E) to the United States South ...


10. Collaborative Research: Anisotropy, Abrupt Climate Change, and the Deep Ice in West Antarctica [pettit_0940650]
This award supports a project to constrain the accumulation rate, thickness, and temperature history for Siple Dome using a vertical velocity profile that includes the effects of an evolving fabric ...


11. Self-consistent Ice Dynamics, Accumulation, Delta-age, and Interpolation of Sparse Age Data using an Inverse Approach [waddington_0636997]
We provide a the synthetic, sparse depth-age data generated using a 1-d ice-flow model. The age data include red noise to simulate real depth-age data. The inferred depth-age data profile are included. ...


12. Anisotropy, Abrupt Climate Change, and the Deep Ice in West Antarctica [waddington_0636996]
This record includes two datasets and accompanying code. The anisotropic flow dataset provides velocity and fabric evolution of anisotropic ice for several numerical experiments. The experiments ...


13. Thwaites International Polar Year (IPY) Geophysics, Antarctica [Anandakrishnan_0632198]
A project to study ice sheet history and dynamics on the Thwaites Glacier and Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.


14. Three-Hourly Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Data, 1980-2000 [NSIDC-0111]
The Automatic Weather Station (AWS) Project, funded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs, involves collecting meteorological data from an array of automatic weather stations in Antarctica, Greenland, ...


15. Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core [alley_0539578]
This award supports a five-year collaborative project to study the physical-properties of the planned deep ice core and the temperature of the ice in the divide region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. ...


16. Collaborative Research: Deciphering the Deep Ice and the Ice-water Interface over Lake Vostok Using Existing Radar Data [creyts_0537752]
This award supports a project to evaluate radio-echo intensities in the available SOAR ice-penetrating radar data along grids covering Lake Vostok, and along four regional tracks from Ridge B toward ...


17. Estimating the Salinity of Subglacial Lakes From Existing Aerogeophysical Data [creyts_0636584]
This award supports a project to estimate the salinity of subglacial Lake Vostok, Lake Concordia and the 90 deg.E lake using existing airborne ice-penetrating radar and laser altimeter data. A change ...


18. Collaborative Research: Microparticle/tephra analysis of the WAIS Divide ice core [dunbar_0636767]
Visible tephra layers were found in the Byrd Station ice core, the first deep core drilled in Antarctica. Since then, tephra have been found in many other Antarctic ice cores. Tephra layers in ice ...


19. Investigation of the Stratigraphy and Time Scale of the WAIS Divide Ice Core Using Electrical Methods [taylor_0440819]
This award supports a project that is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) program; which is a multi-disciplinary multi-institutional program to investigate the causes of natural ...


20. Climatology, Meteorology, and Microbial Metabolism in Ice with Dust Loggers and Fluorimetry [price_0738658]
This award supports a project to use two new scanning fluorimeters to map microbial concentrations vs depth in the WAIS Divide ice core as portions of it become available at NICL, and selected portions ...


21. Dust Logging at Dome C for Abrupt Climate Changes, Large Volcanic Eruptions and Bolide Impacts [bay_0739743]
This award supports a project to make high-resolution logs of dust and ash in the Dome C borehole using an optical dust logger. The dust logger employs a temperature-regulated diode laser at 404 nm ...


22. IPY: Collaborative Proposal: Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers [das_0632031]
This award supports a project to gather data to better understand the mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet focusing on the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers along the Amundsen Sea coast. ...


23. Methyl Chloride, Methyl Bromide, and Carbonyl Sulfide in Deep Antarctic Ice Cores [saltzman_0636953]
This award supports a project to measure methyl chloride, methyl bromide, and carbonyl sulfide in air extracted from Antarctic ice cores.


24. Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Cryosphere and Oceans [scambos_0732921]
This award supports the cryospheric and oceano-graphic components of an integrated multi-disciplinary program to address these rapid and fundamental changes now taking place in Antarctic Peninsula ...


25. Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System [parizek_0758274]
This NSF-ANT award supports a three-year study to isolate essential physical processes affecting Thwaites Glacier (TG) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica using a suite of existing ...


26. Ethane, propane, and n-butane firn-air data [Aydin_0739598]
The data file contains ethane, propane, and n-butane measurements in firn air from two Antarctic sites (South Pole and WAIS-D) and from Summit, Greenland. The WAIS-D and South Pole samples were collected ...


27. IPY: Collaborative Proposal: Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers [Gogineni_0631994]
This award supports a project to gather data to better understand the mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, in the Pine Island and Thwaites region, through the combination of radar altimetry ...


28. Atmospheric CO2 over the last 1000 years: A record from the WAIS Divide ice core [brook_0739766]
These data are a decadally resolved record of atmospheric CO2 concentration for the last 1000 years, obtained from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide shallow ice core.


29. AWS Data: Characteristics of Snow Megadunes and Their Potential Effect on Ice Core Interpretation [NSIDC-0283]
The Antarctic megadune research was conducted during two field seasons, one in November 2002 and the other during the period of December 2003 through January 2004. The megadune field site is located ...


30. GPS Ice Flow Measurements, Allan Hills, Antarctica [NSIDC-0507]
This data set includes includes high-precision GPS measurements of steel poles within the Allan Hills Main Ice Field, Near Western Ice Field, and extending to the eastern edge of the Middle Western ...


31. Methane Isotopes in South Pole Firn Air, 2008 [NSIDC-0502]
This data set contains depth profiles for delta carbon-13 (δ13C) and delta deuterium (δD) of methane (CH/4) in South Pole firn air. The investigators obtained air samples from two boreholes ...


32. Microstructural Location and Composition of Impurities in Polar Ice Cores [NSIDC-0436]
This data set contains measurements of impurities and ions in three polar ice cores: the Vostok 5G ice core and the Byrd ice core from Antarctica, and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) D core. ...


33. Sulfate-Based Volcanic Record from South Pole Ice Core [NSIDC-0215]
This data set contains concentrations of soluble chemical species (ions) within a 120 m ice core retrieved at the South Pole station in 2001. The ice core was dated with annual resolution using annual ...


34. Ablation Rates of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica [NSIDC-0326]
This data set provides glacier surface ablation rates for a network of approximately 250 sites on Taylor Glacier, for year 2003. Here sublimation is the dominant ablation mechanism, though a few sites ...


35. Alkanes in Firn Air Samples, Antarctica and Greenland [NSIDC-0504]
This data set contains ethane, propane, and n-butane measurements in firn air from the South Pole and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide in Antarctica, and from Summit, Greenland. The WAIS ...


36. Antarctic Mean Annual Temperature Map [NSIDC-0318]
The Mean Annual Temperature map was calculated by creating a contour map using compiled 10 meter firn temperature data from NSIDC and other mean annual temperature data from both cores and stations. ...


37. Biogenic Sulfur in the Siple Dome Ice Core [NSIDC-0201]
This data set is a continuous, high-resolution record of biogenic sulfur (methanesulfonate, known as MSA and CH3SO3-) in the 1000 m deep Siple Dome A (SDMA) core, covering 100,000 to 20 years BP. ...


38. Carbon-13 Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Methane in Firn Air, South Pole and Siple Dome, Antarctica [NSIDC-0310]
This data set includes records of the delta carbon-13 (?13C) of methane (CH4) in firn air from the South Pole and trapped in bubbles in a short ice core from Siple Dome, Antarctica. Using two firn ...


39. Climate, Drift, and Image Data from Antarctic Icebergs A22A and UK211, 2006-2007 [NSIDC-0466]
This data set includes a variety of station data from two Antarctic icebergs. In 2006, researchers installed specialized weather stations called Automated Meteorological Ice Geophysical Observing ...


40. Compilation of Antarctic Radar Data, Siple Coast, 2000-2002 [NSIDC-0274]
These data consist of ground-based, ice-penetrating radar profiles across satellite-detected lineations and terrains that were taken in the lower reaches of Ross Ice Stream C, also known as the Kamb ...


41. GPS-Measured Ice Velocities and Strain Data from the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice Flow Divide, West Antarctica [NSIDC-0503]
This data set includes ice flow velocities and strain configurations, from GPS measurements on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide. Ninety markers installed in the firn were measured during ...


42. Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the WAIS Drilling Site, Antarctica [NSIDC-0412]
This data set contains trace gas measurements of air extracted from ice core samples from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide A core (WAIS-D 05A). The WAIS A core was dry-drilled at the WAIS site ...


43. Grounding Line Strain Grid Surveys, Kamb Ice Stream, Antarctica [NSIDC-0494]
This data set provides the results from a strain grid survey deployed across the Kamb Ice Stream grounding line on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The grid was deployed in 2006 and resurveyed in 2007 ...


44. High-resolution Image-derived Grounding and Hydrostatic Lines for the Antarctic Ice Sheet [NSIDC-0489]
This data set provides grounding line and hydrostatic line locations for the Antarctic coastline and islands around Antarctica. The data are derived using customized software to combine data from ...


45. Ice Motion and Topography Near Margin Areas of Kamb Ice Stream, Antarctica [NSIDC-0141]
This data set includes ice motion and topography measurements that were taken by measuring movement and altitude of poles set in the West Antarctic Ice Shelf. The data was acquired by Global Positioning ...


46. Iceberg Tiltmeter Measurements, Antarctica [NSIDC-0353]
Time series of tiltmeter observations (tilt about two horizontal axes in microradians) for a 34 day period on iceberg C16 while it was aground near Ross Island in late 2001 to early 2002. Data shows ...


47. Late Holocene Climate Variability, Dry Valleys, Antarctica [NSIDC-0399]
This data set includes high-resolution ice core records from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, and provides interpretations of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability during the last ...


48. MOA-derived Structural Feature Map of the Ronne Ice Shelf [NSIDC-0497]
This data set provides a structural feature map of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica (also known as the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf). The map was developed as part of a project to study fracture propagation ...


49. Methane Concentration and Chronology from the WAIS Divide Ice Core (WDC05A) [NSIDC-0493]
This data set provides a high-precision and high-resolution record of atmospheric methane from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core WDC05A, spanning the years 1000 to 1800 C.E. The ...


50. Methane Isotopes from the WAIS Divide Ice Core [NSIDC-0435]
This data set includes methane (CH4) isotope data from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core, WDC05A, in Antarctica. The data include depth, gas age, and the isotopic composition of ...


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