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1. Seismic and radar investigations of Fourcade Glacier on King George Island, Antarctica [KPDC_SRIFG_KGI_2006]
To determine P- and S-wave velocities, elastic properties and subglacial topography of the polythermal Fourcade Glacier, surface seismic and radar surveys were conducted along a 470-m profile in November ...


2. Antarctic Peninsula Long Term Environmental Monitoring and Surveying [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00526]
LTMS will build on and extend BAS's past collection of long-term time-series of key environmental variables. Examples include the ongoing collection of the temperature record which shows that the ...


3. GRADES-QWAD: Quaternary West Antarctic Deglaciations [GB-NERC-BAS-AEDC-00521]
Current predictions of sea level rise do not correctly quantify contributions from Antarctica. Some sectors of the Antarctic ice sheet are showing considerable rates of change; are these changes a ...


4. RESURS-O1 data from Eurimage [EURIMAGE_RESURS]
Eurimage is bridging the gap between AVHRR's 1 km resolution and Landsat TM's 30 metres with data obtained from the RESURS-O1-3 satellite from Russia. Launched in November 1994, this third satellite ...


5. Velocities of Outlet Glaciers, Ice streams, and Ice shelves, Antarctica, From Satellite Images [USGS_outletglaciers]
Changes in global climate and sea level are intricately linked to changes in the area and volume of polar ice sheets. Thus, melting of the ice sheets may severely impact the densely populated ...


6. Data Report on 1981 Traverses From Casey For IAGP [iagp_casey_traverse_results]
The Casey Traverse Program was Australia's major contribution to the International Antarctic Glaciological Project, aimed at determining the galciological regime and processes, and deducting some ...


7. Glaciology Logs From Mawson Station [mawson_glaciology_logs]
Logs and journals kept of activities carried out at Mawson station. All books archived at the Australian Antarctic Division.


8. Survey Report, Heard Island, Surveying and Mapping Field Season 2000-2001 [survey_2000-2001_Heard]
Taken from sections of the report: This report details survey work carried out in the Australian Territory of Heard Island as part of Voyage 2 during October and November 2000 by LANDINFO on behalf ...


9. Report from the 1985 ANARE expedition to Heard Island [Heard_Island_Report_1985]
Report of the 1985 A.N.A.R.E to Heard Island. This document contains the following scientific reports: Zoology - elephant seals, fur seals, General Zoology - leopard seals, fish, insects, birds; Botany ...


10. Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO_ARCTIC]
Abstract (from the online documentation): A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability ...


11. 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 ...


12. Ice thickness, mass balance and dynamics of the ice sheet east of Davis, and of the Lambert Glacier [ASAC_2085]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2085 See the link below for public details on this project. ---- Public Summary from Project ---- Over the past 20 years, Australian glaciologists have ...


13. 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 ...


14. 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. ...


15. 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 ...


16. GEOSAT Radar Altimeter DEM Atlas of Antarctica North of 72.1 degrees South [NSIDC-0075]
The Antarctic atlas consists of 28 digital elevation maps which cover all of Antarctica north of 72.1 degrees south at a resolution of three kilometers. Each map contains surface elevations and coordinates ...


17. 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 ...


18. 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 ...


19. 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 ...


20. 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 ...


21. 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 ...


22. 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, ...


23. Polarimetric Radar Data from the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice Flow Divide, West Antarctica [NSIDC-0496]
This dataset contains ground-based, co-polarized radar data collected using pulse-modulated 60 MHz and 179 MHz radar at 19 sites around a deep ice coring site near the Ross and Amundsen flow divide ...


24. 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 ...


25. Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model Version 2 [NSIDC-0082]
The high-resolution Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) combines topographic data from a variety of sources to provide consistent coverage of all of Antarctica. ...


26. 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 ...


27. IceBridge Snow Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles [IRSNO1B]
The NASA IceBridge Snow Radar Level-1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles (IRSNO1B) data set contains snow thickness and internal layer measurements taken from the Center for Remote Sensing of ...


28. Nitrogen and Oxygen Gas Isotopes in the Siple Dome and Byrd Ice Cores, Antarctica [NSIDC-0407]   PARENT DIF
This data set consists of Gas-isotopic data from the Siple Dome and and Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice cores covering roughly the last 100,000 years (100 ka), consisting of d15N (15N/14N) ...


29. World Glacier Inventory [G01130]
The World Glacier Inventory (WGI) contains information for over 130,000 glaciers. Inventory parameters include geographic location, area, length, orientation, elevation, and classification. The WGI ...


30. Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse Operations Reports, 1989-1995 [lgbt_reports]
The Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse program ran from the summer of 1989-90 to the summer of 1994-95. The aim of the program was to take multi-year measurements on the dynamics of the ice-sheet draining ...


31. Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse, Daily Logs 1989-1995 [lgbt_daily_logs]
The Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse program ran from the summer of 1989-90 to the summer of 1994-95. The aim of the program was to take multi-year measurements on the dynamics of the ice-sheet draining ...


32. Characterisation of aquatic resources in McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica: water chemistry, biological identity and genomic samples [K081_2009_2010_NZ_1]
Aquatic environments in Antarctica have changes over time with a changing climate. Small aquatic zones on the surface of glaciers ablation zones are comparatively constant and represent perhaps the ...


33. The GLACIOCLIM Surface Antarctic Mass BAlance (SAMBA) project - Mass balance and meteorological data in Adelie Land and at Dome C [411_0_IPEV_FR]
This is the Antarctic component of the GLACIOCLIM observatory managed at the LGGE (Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de G?ophysique de l'Environnement), to detect, monitor and understand climate and mass ...


34. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2009-11 - AM05 FSI-CTD profile data [ASAC_1164_AM05_CTD]   PARENT DIF
AM05 borehole drilled December 2009. Data collected in series of casts following completion of borehole. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats. A word document providing further ...


35. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2009-11 - AM05 drilling parameters data [ASAC_1164_AM05_Drilling]   PARENT DIF
AM05 borehole drilled December 2009. Data collected in series of files following production of borehole. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats.


36. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2010-11 - AM06 FSI-CTD profile data [ASAC_1164_AM06_CTD]   PARENT DIF
AM06 borehole drilled January 2010. Data collected in series of casts following completion of borehole. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats. A word document providing further ...


37. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2010-11 - AM06 drilling parameters data [ASAC_1164_AM06_Drilling]   PARENT DIF
AM06 borehole drilled January 2010. Data collected in series of files following production of borehole. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats.


38. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, AM05 Seabird MicroCAT CTD moorings at three depths in ocean cavity beneath the shelf [ASAC_1164_AM05_MicroCAT]   PARENT DIF
AM05 borehole drilled December 2009. Data being collected at annual re-visits to site. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats. A word document providing further information is ...


39. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, AM06 Seabird MicroCAT CTD moorings at three depths in ocean cavity beneath the shelf [ASAC_1164_AM06_MicroCAT]   PARENT DIF
AM06 borehole drilled January 2010. Data being collected at annual re-visits to site. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats. A word document providing further information is ...


40. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, AM04 Seabird MicroCAT CTD moorings at three depths in ocean cavity beneath the shelf [ASAC_1164_AM04_MicroCAT]   PARENT DIF
AM04 borehole drilled January 2006. Data being collected at annual re-visits to site. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats. A word document providing further information is ...


41. GISP2 (B and D Core) Methane Concentrations [NSIDC-0125]
The data include methane data from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) B & D Cores. Gas ages were calculated according to the methods described in Brook et al. 1996, and are subject to change. ...


42. Millennially averaged accumulation rates for the Lake Vostok region inferred from deep internal layers [Vostok_accum]
The depths of radar-detected internal layers can be used to infer the spatial variability of accumulation rates. Here we infer accumulation rates from three radar layers (26, 35 and 41ka old) in the ...


43. Modeled radar attenuation-rate profile at the Vostok 5G ice-core site [Vostok_atten]
The modeled radar attenuation-rate profile presented here shows the predicted contributions from pure ice and impurities to radar attenuation at the Vostok 5G ice-core site, as well as the total attenuation ...


44. 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, ...


45. Seasat and GEOSAT Altimetry for the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets [NSIDC-0053]
The Ice Altimetry System (IAS) CD-ROM contains surface elevations of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets derived from Seasat and GEOSAT radar altimetry data. The Seasat data were collected for ...


46. Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History 1994, 1996 [NSIDC-0085]
The Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History project was part of Western Divide West Antarctic Ice Cores (WAISCORES), an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice ...


47. Concentration and Isotopic Composition of O2 and N2 in Trapped Gases of the Vostok Ice Core [NSIDC-0107]
These data describe the d18O of O2, d15N of N2, d18Oatm, and O2/N2 ratios of trapped gases in the Vostok ice core from East Antarctica. The investigator used a mass spectrometer to measure gas concentrations ...


48. Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves [NSIDC-0102]
Recent changes in the extent and stability of ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula prompted NSIDC to begin a monitoring program using data from the AVHRR Polar 1 km Data Set. NSIDC regularly reviews ...


49. Newall Glacier Snow Pit and Ice Core, 1987 to 1989 [NSIDC-0088]
Snow pit and ice core data from the Newall Glacier (location - 162 30' East, 77 35' South) were collected during 1987 and 1988. These include information on chemistry, Beta profiles and stratigraphy. ...


50. Siple Dome Core Date from Measurement of the d18O of Paleoatmospheric Oxygen [NSIDC-0123]
This data set is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores (WAISCORES) project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. ...


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