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1. Ice Sheet Balance Flux computer code BalanceV2.f [ASAC_1261_Balance_Code]   PARENT DIF
Ice Sheet Balance Flux computer code BalanceV2.f Fortran computer source code. This program computes the ice fluxes and optionally the ice velocities that would maintain an ice sheet of specified ...


2. Mass balance of the Totten basin in East Antarctica: Estimation and calibration from ground, air and space-based observations (TOT-Cal) [AAS_3121]
Linked to this record are a report providing further details about the project, as well as the data from the project. Public Summary Regions of Antarctica are undergoing significant change in response ...


3. 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. ...


4. 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 ...


5. Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica [liston_0537532]
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 ...


6. Firn core data from shallow drilling investigations in eastern Wilkes Land, East Antarctica [AADC-00065]
A shallow firn core drilling program was conducted in eastern Wilkes Land in 1985 by an ANARE glaciological team. In conjunction with surveys carried out on ice sheet topography and snow surface ...


7. McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) Core Glacier Mass Balance Data, Antarctica [NSIDC-0421]
As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic sampling program has been undertaken to monitor mass balance of the Taylor Valley ...


8. Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica [scambos_0538103]
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 ...


9. The depth, motion and mass balance of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica [K053_2003_2005_NZ_1]
An examination of the McMurdo Ice Shelf processes was carried out over two field seasons, 2003-2005. Measurements of surface ice motion and mass balance were made by placing stakes across the McMurdo ...


10. Heard Island glacier fluctuations and climatic change [ASAC_1158]
This report describes and presents all the data gathered on Brown Glacier during the 2000 field season. The goal of the study (ASAC project 1158) was to characterize one of the Heard Island glaciers ...


11. Heard Island glacier fluctuations and climatic change - 2003/04 Fieldwork [ASAC_2363]
This report describes the data collected for ASAC project 2363 (a continuation of ASAC 1158). A full report of the data collected and the work completed is available for download with the dataset. ...


12. Computer modelling of the mass balance and dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet [ASAC_1261]   CHILD DIFs
Computer models have been developed to investigate the present and future balance of ice accumulation and loss for the Antarctic ice sheet. New information about the flow properties of ice has been ...


13. Ice-Penetrating Radar Data Across Siple Coast grounding Lines [NSIDC-0474]
These data consist of ice-penetrating radar data collected on the ground across the grounding line near Siple Dome during the 2006 and 2007 Antarctic summer field seasons. Primarily, the data consist ...


14. Glacial Assessment: Past, Present and Future: Acquisition of Essential Research Instrumentation [vanderveen_OPP0321053]
The NSF OPP award # 0321053 supported a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) purchase of equipment for Ohio State University's Glacial Assessment Program (GAP). The program has three major ...


15. High Resolution Ice Thickness and Plane Wave Mapping of Ice Sheet Near-Surface Layers [Kanagaratnam_0230378]
This award supports a project to build and test a 12-18 GHz radar system with a plane wave antenna. This is a wideband radar operating over a frequency range of 12 to 18 GHz to detect ...


16. US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE): GPR Profiles and Accumulation Mapping [NSIDC-0269]
Snow accumulation rates typically show high variability over short distances. This data set contains accumulation rates using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to detect isochronal layers in the firn ...


17. ICE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS AND GLACIER DYNAMICS ON ANTARCTIC PENINSULA AND SOUTHERN PATAGONIA-INTERACCIÓN HIELO-CLIMA Y DINÁMICA DE GLACIARES EN PENÍNSULA ANTÁRTICA Y PATAGONIA AUSTRAL [CDA_AR-ICE-CLIMATE_INTERACTION-GLACIER_DYNAMICS-ANTARCTIC_PENINSULA-SOUTHERN_P]
ENGLISH: The ice masses of the Antarctic Peninsula have been subject to significant changes during the recent decades, with the dramatic disintegration of sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf and the ...


18. State of the Cryosphere [NSIDC-0090]
The Cryospheric regions, or regions where water is found in solid form, are among the most sensitive to temperature change. Average temperatures in snow and ice-covered areas typically ...


19. Measurement of ice velocity and mass balance at Hurd Glacier [CNDAESPGEORADAR02ANT990963BAS16]
In English: This dataset contains information on the project DYNAMICS OF HURD GLACIER, which is aimed at the measurement of the mass balance (accumulation and ablation) in ...


20. Measurement of ice velocity and mass balance at Hurd Glacier [CNDA-ESP_RAD02ANT99-0963BAS016]
In English: This dataset contains information on the project DYNAMICS OF HURD GLACIER, which is aimed at the measurement of the mass balance (accumulation and ablation) in ...


21. Balance ice fluxes for the Antarctic Ice sheet [ASAC_1261_Balance_Flux]   PARENT DIF
Balance Ice Fluxes for the Antarctic ice sheet. These ice fluxes (in km^2/yr)represent the (hypothetical) distribution of ice flux that would keep the Antarctic ice sheet in its present ...


22. Balance ice velocities for the Antarctic Ice sheet [ASAC_1261_Balance_Velocities]   PARENT DIF
Balance Ice Velocities for the Antarctic ice sheet. These ice velocities (in m/yr) represent the (hypothetical) distribution of depth-averaged ice velocities that would keep the Antarctic ...


23. Mass Balance of the Collins Ice Cap on King George Island in West Antarctica [PRIC_GLACIO_MASSBAL]
Mass balance observations were carried out during the 1991/1992 Chinese Antarctica Expedition, when 64 stakes and 15 snow pits were established on Little Dome. Nine sets of simultaneous ...


24. Mass Balance and Accumulation Rate Along US ITASE Routes [Hamilton_0196441]
ICE DYNAMICS AND SURFACE GLACIOLOGY ALONG US ITASE TRAVERSE ROUTES IN EAST ANTARCTICA Antarctica is a key component of the Earth system. The ice sheet and its fringing ice ...


25. Monitoring of glacial dynamics in Johnson Dock (Livingston Island) [CNDA-ESP_ANT95-1628-E]
In English: The techiniques used to extrapolate seasonal behaviour to annual behaviour, were: - A Geodolite 504 to measure the position of each stake and 3 new stakes ...


26. Numerical modeling of glacier thermo-mechanical processes [CNDA-ESP_REN2002-03199]
In English: Mass balance data (accumulation-ablation) on a net of about 50 stakes (poles) covering Johnsons-Hurd glaciers, Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, for ...


27. Mass balance of the Antarctic ice cap [AMD_BE_ICE_CAP_MASS_BALANCE]
This study makes part of the EPICA project (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) which falls under the international research effort developed during the last decades in order to try to ...


28. Determination of the summer component of velocity at the surface of Johnsons and Hurd glaciers. [CNDA-ESP_REN2001-5220-E-ANT]
In English: In order to determine the ice velocities at the surface and the surface mass balance of Johnsons and Hurd Glaciers, Differential GPS (DGPS) positioning and accumulation-ablation measurements ...


29. Ice velocity and mass balance measurements at Hurd glacier [CNDA-ESP_REN2000-3154-E]
In English: The main activities were mass balance and ice velocity measurements in the net of stakes of Hurd glacier, complemented by the maintenance of the net of stakes of Johnsons glacier, plus ...


30. Study of glacial dynamics in Livingston Island [CNDA-ESP_ANT96-0734-E]
In English: Thanks to aerial photographs taken in 1956 and satellite images taken in 1988 and 1991, a 4% reduction in the areal extent of Livingston Island ice cap and even a few measurements with ...


31. Surface Velocity of Ice Streams Measured by Satellite Imagery [NASA_CODE970_ICE_STREAM]
Surface velocity measurements are extracted from sequential satellite imagery (Landsat TM) of Ice Steams D and E in West Antarctica to reveal a complex pattern of ice flow that was not apparent from ...


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