Global Change Master Directorygsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov502013-05-21T08:22:08Zamd Search: [Parameters: Topic='CRYOSPHERE', Term='GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS', Variable_Level_1='GLACIER THICKNESS/ICE SHEET THICKNESS']http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 64 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM03Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM0370.332,-70.561,70.333,-70.562005-12-13T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2013-02-05T05:00:00ZAmery Ice Shelf AM03 borehole drilled mid-December 2005. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM03_videoAmery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM03 - video footage70.332,-70.561,70.333,-70.562005-12-13T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2013-02-05T05:00:00ZAmery Ice Shelf AM03 borehole drilled mid-December 2005. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM04Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM0470.29,-69.9,70.3,-69.892006-01-10T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2013-02-05T05:00:00ZAmery Ice Shelf AM04 borehole drilled mid-January 2006. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM04_videoAmery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04 - video footage70.29,-69.9,70.3,-69.892006-01-10T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2013-02-05T05:00:00ZAmery Ice Shelf AM04 borehole drilled mid-January 2006. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM05Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2009-11 - AM0569.6805,-70.2292,69.6805,-70.22922009-12-19T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2013-02-05T05:00:00ZAmery Ice Shelf AM05 borehole drilled mid-December 2009. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM06Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2010-11 - AM0671.3679,-70.2428,71.3679,-70.24282010-01-07T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2013-02-05T05:00:00ZAmery Ice Shelf AM06 borehole drilled early January 2010. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]steffen_0732946IPY: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate2009-01-01T00:00:00Z2011-10-01T00:00:00Z2013-01-07T05:00:00ZOur 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. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AIS_1968_traverseAmery Ice Shelf 1968 Traverse Reports and Logs65.0,-74.0,74.0,-68.01968-01-27T00:00:00Z1969-02-18T00:00:00Z2012-12-10T05:00:00ZIn 1968 the Australian Antarctic Division had a team of four people spend just over a year on the Amery Ice Shelf, undertaking a range of studies including ice velocity determination (horizontal and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]iagp_casey_traverse_resultsData Report on 1981 Traverses From Casey For IAGP110.0,-67.0,111.0,-66.01981-01-01T00:00:00Z1981-12-31T00:00:00Z2012-11-29T05:00:00ZThe 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 ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]enderby_flight_logs_1977Enderby Land Flight Logs For Ice Radar and Navigation, 197754.0,-69.0,63.0,-68.01977-01-01T00:00:00Z1977-01-28T00:00:00Z2012-11-29T05:00:00ZA series of flights over Enderby Land were carried out in January 1977 with an airborne ice radar. The flight notes on navigation, radar settings and other notes from the flight have been archived ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]waddington_0636997Self-consistent Ice Dynamics, Accumulation, Delta-age, and Interpolation of Sparse Age Data using an Inverse Approach2012-09-06T04:00:00ZWe 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. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]blankenship_0733025IPY Research: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP)95.0,-82.0,180.0,-65.02008-12-01T00:00:00Z2012-01-01T00:00:00Z2012-09-05T04:00:00ZThis is the master metadata record for the ICECAP project, a four-year International Polar Year campaign to map the morphology, geology and glaciology of the major marine subglacial basins of East ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AIS_thickness_bottomAmery Ice Shelf compiled and merged ice thickness datasets66.41,-73.36,74.25,-68.451957-10-01T00:00:00Z2003-12-09T00:00:00Z2012-06-18T04:00:00ZPoint datasets showing ice thickness over the Amery Ice Shelf and Lambert Glacier Basin were collected by Rachael Hurd under contract with the Glaciology program of the Australian Antarctic Division ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]scambos_0732921Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Cryosphere and Oceans63.0,-65.0,59.0,-60.02008-05-01T00:00:00Z2013-04-30T00:00:00Z2012-06-18T04:00:00ZThis 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 ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K064_2010_2012_NZ_1The Glaciological Basis of Palaeoclimatic Reconstructions of Ice-Shelf Moraines167.21272,78.19859,166.00351,78.304082010-11-08T00:00:00Z2010-12-05T00:00:00Z2011-11-08T00:00:00Z2011-11-19T00:00:00Z2012-06-08T04:00:00ZThe research is giving us an understanding of the entrainment, transfer and deposition of sediment by ice shelves. The investigation of the structure, composition and motion of the Southern McMurdo ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IRMCR2IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness-180.0,-90.0,180.0,-53.0-180.0,60.0,180.0,90.02009-10-16T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2012-05-13T04:00:00ZThe IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness (IRMCR2) data set contains depth sounder measurements over Greenland and Antarctica taken from the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS). The data ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IRMCR3IceBridge MCoRDS L3 Gridded Ice Thickness, Surface, and Bottom-180.0,-90.0,180.0,-53.0-180.0,60.0,180.0,90.01995-01-01T00:00:00ZT00:00:00Z2012-05-13T04:00:00ZThe NASA IceBridge MCoRDS L3 Gridded Ice Thickness, Surface, and Bottom (IRMCR3) data set contains products from depth sounder measurements over Greenland and Antarctica taken from the Multichannel ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BRMCR2Pre-IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness-180.0,-90.0,180.0,-53.0-180.0,60.0,180.0,90.01993-06-23T00:00:00Z2007-09-23T00:00:00Z2012-05-13T04:00:00ZThe NASA Pre-IceBridge MCoRDS Level-2 Ice Thickness (BRMCR2) data set contains depth sounder measurements over Greenland and Antarctica taken from the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS). ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_2788Analysis of East Antarctic drainage basins with altimetric, interferometric, gravity and GPS techniques to determine their state of flux110.0,-67.0,111.0,-66.02007-10-01T00:00:00Z2009-03-31T00:00:00Z2012-02-01T05:00:00ZMetadata record for data from ASAC Project 2788
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This project will reassess the mass balance of Law Dome and a large sector of ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K001BI_2010_2011_NZ_1Timelapse camera, ice-penetrating radar and GPS data from Beardmore Glacier grounding line.170.5,-83.8,173.0,-83.52010-12-08T00:00:00Z2011-01-11T00:00:00Z2012-01-23T05:00:00ZTimelapse camera, ice-penetrating radar and GPS data collected at the grounding zone of Beardmore Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains, Dec 2010. Two time-lapse cameras were deployed on the summit of ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]hamilton_0440792Ice Dynamics and Surface Glaciology along US ITASE Traverse Routes in East Antarctica0.0,-90.0,166.67,-77.852011-12-01T05:00:00ZThis award supports a series of field measurements that will improve our understanding of the East Antarctic ice sheet. The objectives of this project are to take advantage of the overland traverse ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0125GISP2 (B and D Core) Methane Concentrations-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z1999-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-08-26T04:00:00ZThe 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. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0123Siple Dome Core Date from Measurement of the d18O of Paleoatmospheric Oxygen-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z1999-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-28T04:00:00ZThis 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. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0124Siple Dome Methane Record-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z1999-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-28T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0120WAISCORES: Deep Ice Coring in West Antarctica-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z1999-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-28T04:00:00ZThe WAISCORES project is part of the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs' West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) initiative, which is aimed at understanding the influence of the West Antarctic ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0099Ice Thickness and Surface Elevation, Southeastern Ross Embayment, West Antarctica-134.0,-84.0,-104.0,-80.01991-12-27T00:00:00Z1996-01-02T00:00:00Z2011-07-25T04:00:00ZIce surface elevation and ice thickness data are available for a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The investigators utilized a laser altimeter and ice-penetrating radar mounted to a Twin ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0121Visible Stratigraphic Dating, Siple Dome and Upstream C Cores-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01997-06-01T00:00:00Z1997-08-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-25T04:00:00ZThis 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. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0133Siple Dome Cores Electrical Measurement Data-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01997-06-01T00:00:00Z1997-08-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-19T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0134Siple Dome Highlights: Stable isotopes-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z1999-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-19T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0129Siple Shallow Core Density Data-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z2000-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-19T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0132Taylor Dome Ice Core Data158.0,-77.0,158.0,-77.01993-01-01T00:00:00Z1996-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-07-19T04:00:00ZThe collection site is Taylor Dome, an ice-accumulation area on the East Antarctic ice sheet. The dome is a ridge about 20 x 80 km, which lies inland of the Transantarctic Mountains. Deep drilling ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0127Digital Images of Thin Sections from Siple Dome-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z1999-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-06-30T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0128Physical and Structural Properties of the Siple Dome Ice Cores-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z2000-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-06-30T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0130Siple Dome Ice Core Age-Depth Scales-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.01996-01-01T00:00:00Z1996-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-06-30T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0126Volcanic Records in the Siple and Taylor Dome Ice Cores-149.0,-81.0,-149.0,-81.0158.7889,-77.95,158.7889,-77.951996-01-01T00:00:00Z1999-12-31T00:00:00Z2011-06-30T04:00:00ZThis data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0414Antarctic Radar Echograms and Derived Ice Thickness Data from CReSIS-110.0,-77.0,-60.0,-62.02002-11-26T00:00:00Z2004-11-29T00:00:00Z2011-03-03T05:00:00ZThe 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 ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0380Glaciological Investigations of the Bulge and Trunk of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica-140.0,-83.0,-130.0,-82.02004-11-01T00:00:00Z2004-12-30T00:00:00Z2005-11-14T00:00:00Z2005-12-28T00:00:00Z2011-03-01T05:00:00ZThis 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 ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K064_2008_2010_NZ_1GPR surveys, meteorological and hydrology data from the Joyce, Garwood and Hobbs glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to investigate glacier-permafrost interactions163.9167,-78.0833,163.0,-78.0164.4474,-77.9054,164.4474,-77.90542008-11-08T00:00:00Z2010-02-04T00:00:00Z2010-09-20T04:00:00ZThe aim of this study was to develop an understanding of the interactions between glaciers and their permafrost beds that will permit models of glaciers to realistically parameterise ice motion. Improvement ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K056_2006_2007_NZ_3Ground penetrating radar survey of the Darwin and Hatherton glacial systems155.0,-80.0,160.0,-79.02009-01-15T00:00:00Z2009-01-25T00:00:00Z2010-09-20T04:00:00ZMore than 300 km of ground penetrating radar (GPR) data were collected on the glaciers around Roadend Nunatak, Lake Wellman and Lake Wilson. Reflections from the bedrock were observed on most profiles, ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K053_2003_2005_NZ_1The depth, motion and mass balance of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica164.2167,-78.275,168.2697,-77.71552003-11-07T00:00:00Z2004-01-23T00:00:00Z2004-11-03T00:00:00Z2005-02-03T00:00:00Z2010-08-30T04:00:00ZAn 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 ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]raymond_0338151Englacial Layers and Attenuation Rates across the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice-Flow Divide (WAIS Divide), West Antarctica-112.086,-79.468,-112.086,-79.4682004-05-01T00:00:00Z2010-04-30T00:00:00Z2010-08-10T04:00:00ZThis data set contains the results of a model study of spatial variations of ice temperature and subglacial conditions using available ice-penetrating radar data around a future deep ice coring site ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_457The Dynamics of the Outlet Glaciers95.0,-68.0,115.0,-65.01983-09-30T00:00:00Z1995-03-31T00:00:00Z2010-07-26T04:00:00ZMetadata record for data from ASAC Project 457
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region of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and terminates in Taylor Valley, the
southernmost of the famous ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]blankenship_OPP9814816Ground Based 60 MHz Deep Radar at Onset D-129.0,-81.0,-123.0,-80.52001-12-06T00:00:00Z2002-01-13T00:00:00Z2010-07-09T04:00:00ZDeep ground radar sounding was carried out at the onset of Ice Stream D
(Bindschadler Ice Stream), Siple Coast, West Antarctica using the UT/TUD 60 MHz
radar system, configured for pulsed ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]conway_OPP0229490Investigation of the glacial history of the Siple Coast using radar-detected internal layers and the ice core from Siple Dome2010-07-09T04:00:00ZWe are using ice-penetrating radar data collected over the course of several field seasons in West Antarctica to analyze and detect englacial radar layers. These radar layers are due to fluctuations ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SMHI_IPY_JASE02Snow and ice layering and basal conditions of the East Antarctic ice sheet-15.0,-76.0,26.0,-73.02007-12-08T00:00:00Z2008-02-04T00:00:00Z2010-07-09T04:00:00ZThe aim of the radar studies was to map the snow land ice layering along the traverse route, and to map basal conditions by sub glacial lakes and at sites chosen for detailed morphological analyses. ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Kanagaratnam_0230378High Resolution Ice Thickness and Plane Wave Mapping of Ice Sheet Near-Surface Layers -38.57,72.51,-38.436,72.634-112.224,-79.501,-111.229,-79.33852005-07-17T00:00:00Z2005-07-24T00:00:00Z2005-12-29T00:00:00Z2006-01-10T00:00:00Z2010-07-07T04:00:00ZThis 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 ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Western_Divide_WAIS_Icecores_Site_SelectionProposed Drill Site: Ross-Amundsen Ice Divide, West Antarctica-112.0859,-79.4676,-112.0859,-79.46762010-07-02T04:00:00ZProposed drill site near the Ross-Amundsen ice divide, West Antarctica
Describes conditions near the Ross-Amundsen ice divide, and discusses candidate
drill sites ...http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[BAS_AEDC]GB-NERC-BAS-AEDC-00162BAS Geophysical Data - Radio Echo Sounding2010-04-27T04:00:00ZRadio Echo Sounding data collected over a number of campaigns.http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0312Amundsen Sea Sector Data Set-180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.02004-12-21T00:00:00Z2005-03-21T00:00:00Z2010-03-09T05:00:00ZThis 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 ...