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1. 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. ...


2. 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. ...


3. 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 ...


4. 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 ...


5. 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 ...


6. 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 ...


7. 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 ...


8. 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 ...


9. MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry [NSIDC-0498]
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides 17 years of comprehensive high-resolution mapping of grounding lines ...


10. MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Antarctica Velocity Map [NSIDC-0484]
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides the first comprehensive, high-resolution, digital mosaic of ice motion ...


11. 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 ...


12. Millennially Averaged Accumulation Rates for Lake Vostok [NSIDC-0500]
This data set consists of inferred accumulation rates from three radar layers (26, 35 and 41 thousand years old) in the Vostok Subglacial Lake region. Accumulation rates were inferred using Local-Layer ...


13. Modeled Radar Attenuation Rate Profile at the Vostok 5G Ice Core Site, Antarctica [NSIDC-0501]
This data set provides a modeled radar attenuation rate profile, showing the predicted contributions from pure ice and impurities to radar attenuation at the Vostok 5G ice core site in Antarctica, ...


14. Radar Studies of Internal Stratigraphy and Bed Topography along the US ITASE-II Traverse [NSIDC-0475]
This data set contains ice penetrating radar data from the US-International Trans-Antarctic Science Expedition (ITASE) Traverse, from Taylor Dome to South Pole recorded by the St. Olaf College deep ...


15. Surface Elevation and Ice Thickness, Western Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica [NSIDC-0119]
This data set provides surface elevation and ice thickness data for a portion of the Marie Byrd Land sector of West Antarctica, including the Ford Ranges, the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, much of the Edward ...


16. IceBridge MCoRDS L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles [IRMCR1B]
The IceBridge MCoRDS L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles (IRMCR1B) data set contains radio echo-sounding measurements over Antarctica taken from the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder ...


17. Pre-IceBridge MCoRDS L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles [BRMCR1B]
The Pre-IceBridge MCoRDS L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles (BRMCR1B) data set contains Arctic and Antarctic radio echo-sounding measurements taken from the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth ...


18. Antarctic Ice Velocity Data [NSIDC-0070]
This compilation of recent ice velocity data of the Antarctic ice sheet is intended for use by the polar scientific community. The data are presented in tabular form (ASCII), containing latitude, ...


19. Roosevelt Island Bedrock and Surface Elevations [NSIDC-0140]
This data set consists of bedrock and surface elevation readings taken by ground penetrating radar and Global Positioning System (GPS) on Roosevelt Island, an ice dome within the Ross Ice Shelf. Locations ...


20. Antarctic Radar Echograms and Derived Ice Thickness Data from CReSIS [NSIDC-0414]
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) data from the 2002 and 2006 Flight missions. Basic Processing has been done to obtain the radar echograms and derived ice thickness data. Algorithms ...


21. Glaciological Investigations of the Bulge and Trunk of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica [NSIDC-0380]
This data set contains radar data from the Kamb Ice Stream (KIS), formerly known as Ice Stream C, in West Antarctica. The project was part of a larger study to assess the likelihood of ice stream ...


22. Ice Shelf Rift Time-Lapse Photography, Antarctica [NSIDC-0351]
From November 2004 to March 2005, on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, an automated "web cam" was operated on the southward facing lip of a large ice-shelf rift to produce a photographic record of processes ...


23. Iceberg Firn Temperatures, Antarctica [NSIDC-0352]
Since November of 2005, 12 thermistors were planted in the upper 2.5 meters of the firn on iceberg C16, Antarctica. Temperature data are collected every 20 minutes and are transmitted via ARGOS satellite ...


24. Methyl Chloride Measurements from the Siple Dome A Deep Core, Antarctica [NSIDC-0356]
This data set is an analysis of methyl chloride concentration measured in air extracted from ice core samples from the Siple Dome A deep core in West Antarctica. In total, forty six (46) ice samples, ...


25. Ross Ice Shelf Firn Temperature, Antarctica [NSIDC-0354]
Since November of 2006, 12 thermistors were planted in the upper 16 meters of the firn on the Ross Ice Shelf near its calving front. Temperature data are collected every 20 minutes and are transmitted ...


26. Singular Value Decomposition Analysis of Ice Sheet Model Output Fields [NSIDC-0396]
This data set provides the results of predictive modeling experiments on the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of Antarctica. The models examine how interactions between basal processes and ice sheet ...


27. Twenty-Three Century-scale Ice Core Records of Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) from West Antarctica [NSIDC-0392]
This data set contains sub-annually resolved concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), snow, firn and ice from 23 sites on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS. Data were obtained from 2000 to 2003 ...


28. Antarctic Aerogeophysics Data [NSIDC-0240]
The data that the Support Office for Aerogeophysical Research (SOAR) provides include various aerogeophysical measurements taken in the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS) from 1994 to 2001. The instruments ...


29. Antarctic Subglacial Lake Classification Inventory [NSIDC-0336]
This data set is an Antarctic radar-based subglacial lake classification collection, which focuses on the radar reflection properties of each given lake. The Subglacial lakes are separated into four ...


30. Continuous GPS (static) Data from the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica [NSIDC-0347]
In October 2005, three geodetic GPS receivers were deployed on the Ross Ice Shelf near the ice front to observe short-term fluctuations in ice-shelf velocity associated with tidal forcing and other ...


31. GLAS/ICESat 500 m Laser Altimetry Digital Elevation Model of Antarctica [NSIDC-0304]
The Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument on the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) provides global measurements of elevation, and repeats measurements along nearly-identical ...


32. Snow and Firn Permeability: Characteristics of Snow Megadunes and their Potential Effects on Ice Core Interpretation [NSIDC-0299]
This data set contains firn physical properties measured in two meter snow pits and from deeper, 12- to 30-meter firn cores. The physical properties measured in the snow pits include density, permeability ...


33. Vertical Strain at Siple Dome, Antarctica, 1999-2002 [NSIDC-0214]
At the Siple Dome area of Antarctica, much of the ice flow is vertical, which causes vertical ice deformation. To measure this phenomenon, the investigators used a method known as vertical strain ...


34. US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition 400 MHz Subsurface Radar Profiles [NSIDC-0254]
This data set includes subsurface radar profiles that were recorded between core sites during the November-December seasons for 1999-2002. Data were collected using an ice-penetrating radar to survey ...


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