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1. 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.


2. Ice velocity and strain rate fields over the Lambert Glacier - Amery Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica [AAD_Ant_LG-AIS_vel_strain]
Measurements of ice velocity and strain rate have been derived by analysis of satellite images for the Lambert Glacier and Amery Ice Shelf system. Two techniques have been applied in the production ...


3. 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 ...


4. 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 ...


5. 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 ...


6. 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 ...


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. 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 ...


9. Antarctica - Wilkes Land ice velocity from over_snow traverse Doppler Satellite Position data [AAD_Ant_WLD_ice_vel]
Measurements of ice velocity on the surface of the ice sheet in Wilkes Land East Antarctica were made along the routes of oversnow traverses operating out of Casey (66.6 S 110 E). In general, measurements ...


10. Ice sheet surface velocity data: LGB traverses 1989-95 [LGB_Vel_traverse]
The ANARE Lambert Glacier Basin (LGB) series of oversnow traverses were conducted during the period 1989-95. Field operations were carried out along the proximity of the 2500 m elevation contour around ...


11. GPS data from 8 receivers positioned along the northern branch of Skelton Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains. [K001BI_2011_2012_NZ_1]   PARENT DIF
GPS data from 8 receivers positioned along the northern branch of Skelton Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains, from which we hope to derive velocities and tidal flexure measurements.


12. 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, ...


13. 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 ...


14. Ice Velocity Data from Ice Stream C, West Antarctica [NSIDC-0106]
Ice velocity data from ice stream C, including the body of the ice stream and its area of onset, are available. The investigator calculated velocities from precise ice displacement measurements made ...


15. 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 ...


16. 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 ...


17. Displacement measurements of Byrd Glacier using Landsat images of 22 Feb 1988 and 25 Jan 1990. [Byrd_1988_1990]
Displacement values for Byrd Glacier, measured on Landsat images of 22 Feb 1988 to 25 Jan 1990. Dataset includes lat/long coordinates of starting and ending point. Velocities can be ...


18. Dynamics of Ice Streams: A Physical Statistical Approach [Cressie_0229292]
Ice streams are believed to play a major role in determining the response of their parent ice sheet to climate change, and in determining global sea level by serving as regulators ...


19. Glaciological Investigations of the Bulge-Trunk Transition on Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica [tulaczyk_0338295]
This award supports a project to test whether Kamb Ice Stream (formerly Ice Stream C (ISC)), an ice stream that is thought to have stopped ~150 years ago, may be already in the process of restarting. ...


20. Short-term fluctuations of West Antarctic ice streams - model results [nsfopp0096302]
This project was aimed primarily at understanding the role of subglacial till beds in controlling transient behavior of ice streams and ice sheets. Research tools included a numerical ...


21. Tidal Modulation of Ice Stream Flow [Anandakrishnan_0229629]
A project to investigate the new-found, startling sensitivity of two major West Antarctic ice streams to tidal oscillations to learn the extent and character of the effect and its ramifications for ...


22. Crystallographic Preferred Orientation Data for Ice Deformed Via Grain Size Sensitive Creep [goldsby_NSF0230190]
Laboratory experiments were performed on samples of deuterated water ice with grain sizes <30 microns. Samples were deformed via a grain size sensitive creep mechanism, so-called ...


23. Amundsen Sea Sector Data Set [NSIDC-0312]
This data set includes a nested model, that starts at low resolution for the whole Antarctic Ice Sheet, and then embeds higher resolution data at limited domains. There are at least three levels of ...


24. 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 ...


25. Surface Velocities of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica [NSIDC-0324]
This data set contains surface velocities of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, for the year 2003. Measurement period was approximately 12 months. There are approximately 250 locations in this data set. ...


26. Margin Migration Rates and Dynamics: Siple Coast Ice Streams [NSIDC-0263]
This product, based on prior data collected under NSF-OPP grant 8716604 (Echelmeyer and Harrison) and NSF-OPP grant 9117911 (Harrison), includes ice velocity data between stations S17 and UpB on the ...


27. 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 ...


28. 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 ...


29. Monitoring surface elevation change and ice sheet movement in Antarctica using high-precision GPS techniques [ASAC_887]
The data sets consist of static and kinematic GPS data collected on the Amery Ice Shelf using Leica 299 receivers. Additional GPS data were collected at Beaver Lake. All data are provided in UNIX ...


30. Amery Ice Shelf Dynamics from GPS [ASAC_1120]
The data sets consist of static GPS data collected on the Amery Ice Shelf using Leica CRS1000 receivers. Additional data at Landing Bluff, Dalton Corner and Beaver Lake were collected by ANU (see ...


31. 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 ...


32. Boundaries of sub-glacial basins of Lambert-Amery glacial system [liu_nsf0126149_02]
Boundaries of eight sub-glacial basins of Lambert-Amery glacial system are derived based on Antarctic digital elevation model and ice velocity data. The data set is given as an ArcInfo ...


33. Collaborative Research: Characteristics of Snow Megadunes and their Potential Effects on Ice Core Interpretation [scambos_0125570]
Field study and remote sensing measurements of an area of snow megadunes on the East Antarctic plateau provides a preliminary assessment of dune morphology, firn structure, and layering ...


34. High-resolution Modeling of Surface Topography, Ice Motion, and Mass Balance in the Lambert Glacial Basin Using Radar Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques [liu_nsf0126149]
This project examines the morphology, ice motion velocity and mass balance of Lambert Glacier, Antarctica using state-of-the-art remote sensing and GIS techniques. Lambert Glacier is ...


35. Ice Velocity Field for Lambert-Amery Glacial Basin Derived from 2000 Radarsat SAR Interferometric Data [liu_nsf0126149_01]
Ice velocity field for the Lambert-Amery glacial basin, Antarctica are derived based on three-pass Radarsat SAR interferometric data acquired in 2000. Two grids are given in ArcInfo interchangable ...


36. 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 ...


37. 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 ...


38. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2001-02 - AM01 GPS data in vicinity of borehole site using Leica System 300. [ASAC_1164_AM01_GPS]   PARENT DIF
AM01 borehole drilled January 2002. GPS data collected in two segments: over 3 days &static& around 07-Jan-2002, and a short kinematic sequence on 23-Jan-2002. Consult Readme file for detail of ...


39. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2003-04 - AM01b GPS data in vicinity of borehole site using Leica System 300. [ASAC_1164_AM01b_GPS]   PARENT DIF
AM01b borehole site Small amount of static GPS data at each of four sites in a 500 m x 500 m square strain grid. Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats.


40. Cosmogenic He-3 data from surface sediments above old buried ice in Beacon Valley, Antarctica [0338244]
The cosmogenic He-3 data set created during this project provides three major constraints: *The cosmogenic 3He survey from Mullins Glaciers allows us to calculate for the first time paleo-flow rates ...


41. 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 ...


42. 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 ...


43. 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 ...


44. Climatic and Environmental Studies by Means of Ice Cores [CDA_AR_GLA_GLAF_ICE_CORES]
More than twenty years ago the Instituto Antartico Argentino initiated ice-cores studies in the Antarctic Peninsula. It also carried out the first work of this type in the Argentine central Andes. ...


45. GPS strain net in Dome C area aimed at a detailed investigation of the ice flow. [GPSstrainNetworkDomeC]
In the framework of the European Science Foundation Project, named EPICA (Europea Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) an international plan for deep ice coring drilling in Antarctica was established, ...


46. Glaciology Data for the Antarctic Peninsula from the Instituto Antartico Argentino [CDA_AR_GEO_GLACIOLOGY_DATA]
This data set contains satellite data used for glacier studies and interpretation of surface ice features. It also includes measurements of ice movement.


47. HIELOANTAR Project Data from the Instituto Antartico Argentino [CDA_AR_GEO_HIELOANTAR_DATA]
This data set contains surface ice velocity: Data: 17 markers measured in 1982, 1984 and 1988 (along a traverse Seal Nunataks-Jason Peninsula). Data: 15 markers measured in 1991 (alongs traverse ...


48. Super-poles on Ice Stream D intended to monitor the ice elevation over time [Ice_stream_D_super-poles]
GPS data were collected at each of three super-pole locations in austral summers 97-98, 98-99, 99-00, 00-01. Local surveys of topography were conducted. SOAR laser altimetry was collected in two ...


49. Surface Velocities of Ice Plain B, West Antarctica [Ice_Plain_B_Velocities]
GPS positions of 29 stations on the ice plain of ice stream B were collected. Occupation time varied from 6 hours to 48 hours. Repeat occuptations from 7 to 10 days later allowed determined surface ...


50. Glaciological Studies on Vega Island [CDA_AR_GEO_GLAF_VEGA_ISLAND]
Field activities for the 1999/2000 summer campaign: Glaciology Group: a) Stake network surveying and computation of net balamce, ice velocities and ice deformation in selected places of Vega Island, ...


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