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1. Ice floe surveying conducted during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Ice_Floe_Survey]   PARENT DIF
These data were collected to provide a spatial context for activities on SIPEX-2. Please see the document 'SIPEX II ice floe surveying report' for more detail. Files generated and stored in this dataset ...


2. The Sea Ice System in Antarctic Summer, Oden Southern Ocean Expedition (OSO 2010-11) [NSF-ANT08-39053]
Several aspect of the seasonal melting and reformation cycle of Antarctic sea ice appear to be divergent from those occurring in the Arctic. This is most clearly demonstrated by the dramatic diminishing ...


3. Airborne Radar-Derived Accumulation Rates over Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers [joughin_0631973]
This data set includes radar-derived annual accumulation rates over Thwaites Glacier between 1980 and 2009 and a gridded climatology (1985-2009) of snow accumulation over Pine Island and Thwaites ...


4. An Energy Budget Algorithm for a Snowpack-Snowmelt Calculation [KPDC_AEBASSC_2011]
Understanding snowmelt movement to the watershed is crucial for both climate change and hydrological studies because the snowmelt is a significant component of groundwater and surface runoff in temperature ...


5. An englacial image and water pathways of the Fourcade glacier on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula, inferred from ground-penetrating radar [KPDC_EIWPFG_KGI_2006]
The distribution of small fractures and water content of the Fourcade glacier on King George Island, Antarctica, was investi- gated in November 2006 and December 2007 by two ground-based (470- and ...


6. GPR Investigation of Glacier on Livingstone Island, Antarctica [KPDC_GPRIGL_ANTARCTIC_1997]
With the aim of global environmental monitoring we carried out GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) surveys at the Livingston Island in Antarctica. Research area is near the Mt. Charra (340 m) in Livingston ...


7. Helicopter-borne and ground-towed radar surveys of the Fourcade Glacier on King George Island, Antarctica [KPDC_HBGTR_ANTARCTIC_2006]
To determine subglacial topography and internal features of the Fourcade Glacier on King George Island in Antarctica, helicopter-borne and ground-towed ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data were recorded ...


8. Simulation of a tidewater glacier evolution in Marian Cove, King George Island, Antarctica [KPDC_STGEMC_KSJ_2006]
Glacier changes in Marian Cove, King George Island (KGI) were investigated on the basis of observed and modeled data. Air temperature observations for the past 51 years recorded at the Russian Bellingshausen ...


9. Development of a mathematical model for both solute transport in snow and isotopic evolution of snowmelt [KPDC_DMMSIES_2012]
Chemical and isotopic variations of snowmelt provide important clues for understanding snowmelt processes and the timing and contribution of snowmelt to catchment or watershed in spring. The newly ...


10. Validations of a numerical model of solute transport in a snowpack [KPDC_VNMST_2012]
Snowmelt from seasonal snow covers can be significant in many environments of northern and alpine areas. Water flow and chemical transport resulting from snowmelt have been studied for an understanding ...


11. 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 ...


12. CACHE-PEP: Natural climate variability - extending the Americas Pole-Equator-Pole paleoclimate transect through the Antarctic Peninsula to the Pole [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00510]
To determine how the climate of the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene (last 10,000 years) is related to global scale patterns and trends, in order to understand the significance of current environmental ...


13. Geology of possible runway sites in the Davis region, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica [ANARE-98]
From the abstract of the referenced publication: Five possible runway sites have been proposed within 4 km of Davis on the northwestern part of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Most are on on thin, ...


14. MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5 [MOD29E1DV5]
MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day (MOD29E1D) data set contains fields for sea ice by reflectance and Ice Surface Temperature (IST). Each data granule covers the ...


15. 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.


16. GEACEP-ISODYN: Icehouse Earth: Stability Or DYNamism? [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00518]
GEACEP will investigate the relationship between the evolution of Antarctic ice and the changing global environment over the last ~30 million years (My). We will do so through collecting and combining ...


17. 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 ...


18. Extents of fast ice digitised from satellite images [gis283]
The Australian Antarctic Data Centre digitises on-screen fast ice features from satellite images as required for Australian Antarctic division scientists Dr Jonny Stark and Dr Martin Riddle and will ...


19. Ice features digitised from satellite images [gis309]
The Australian Antarctic Data Centre digitises on-screen topographic features from satellite images as required for various projects and applications. Features digitised include the ice shelves, ...


20. CACHE-CEFAC: Chemical Exchange and Feedbacks between the Atmosphere and Cryosphere [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00508]
We will conduct year-round atmospheric chemistry measurements at Halley of key oxidants (OH, HO2, NO, O3, CO, Js), to study the role of the snowpack in determining the oxidant system. This will be ...


21. SIPEX data iron site - Aurora Australis voyage Sept-Oct 2007 [ASAC_3026_SIPEX]   PARENT DIF
This work was completed as part of the SIPEX - Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem eXperiment - voyage. Adapted from the SPIEX website: During SIPEX we investigated the biogeochemistry of iron (Fe), including ...


22. The role of iron as a micro-nutrient to the Antarctic sea-ice zone algal community - Casey Data [ASAC_3026_Casey]   PARENT DIF
Public Description of the Project This project will assess the importance of the trace micro-nutrient element iron to Antarctic sea-ice algal communities during the International Polar Year (2007-2009). ...


23. NC-NCP: Natural Complexity Project [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00511]
COMPLEXITY will apply new mathematical methods to data sets drawn from across the GSAC programme to reveal previously hidden underlying patterns and laws, and to develop new mathematical models to ...


24. Diurnal snow pit measurements observed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Diurnal_Snow]   PARENT DIF
Motivation: One of the characteristics of this voyage is that we have long ice stations which last for a few days. Taking this opportunity, we decided to examine the diurnal change of snow properties ...


25. Ice and snow pit measurements observed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Ice_Snowpits]   PARENT DIF
This dataset contains routine measurements of snow and ice thickness, and snow-ice interface temperature, at 1m intervals along standard transects; snow property characterisation in snow pits measured ...


26. Snow buoy deployments made during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Snow_Buoys]   PARENT DIF
This document describes the deployment of five Ice Mass Balance Buoys (IMBs) and two automatic weather stations. These were primarily deployed on floes 2012103 and 20121029, as well as on helicopter ...


27. Underway snowfall measurements during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Underway_Snowfall]   PARENT DIF
Matlab file containing raw data snowfall data collected aboard the RV Aurora Australis using Campbell Scientific dataloggers. Two Wenglor brand YHO3NCT8 photoelectric sensors were mounted on the ...


28. Snowpit measurements made from ice stations during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Snowpits]   PARENT DIF
In addition to snow pits dug by other groups, several snow pits were dug at IMB/AWS deployment sites and at snow mast sites. Dates, locations, personnel, and purpose are listed in Table 1. Many ...


29. RAPPLS Surveys (Radar, Aerial Photography, Pyrometer, and Laser Scanning system) made during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_RAPPLS]   PARENT DIF
This dataset contains the data collected during the RAPPLS (Radar, Aerial Photography, Pyrometer, and Laser Scanning system) flights that were undertaken as a part of the SIPEX II (Sea Ice Physics ...


30. Sea Ice Main Biology Sampling collected during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Phytoplankton]   PARENT DIF
Five (out of a possible 7) ice stations were sampled for the Main Biology Site, collected from -63.88S 119.9E off East Antarctic in September to November 2012 during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystems ...


31. 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 ...


32. Relative permittivity of brine samples taken from 2 MHz to 4 GHz across a range of temperatures during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Brine_Permittivity]   PARENT DIF
This dataset contains data resulting from the measurement of brine samples extracted from the sea-ice during the 2012 SIPEX 2 (Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystems Experiment) marine science voyage. The ...


33. S-band waveguide measurements of sea-ice samples ranging from 2.6 to 3.95 GHz during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Waveguide]   PARENT DIF
This dataset contains data relating to an experimental method in which sea-ice samples were measured in an S-band microwave waveguide. This was conducted as a part of the 2012 SIPEX 2 (Sea Ice Physics ...


34. Skin temperature data of the pack ice zone collected during the SIPEX voyage of the Aurora Australis during 2007 [SIPEX_Pyrometer]
Skin temperature data over the East Antarctic pack ice zone were recorded by the RAPPLS airborne instrument package using a KT-19II infrared pyrometer. The KT-19II infrared pyrometer was manufactured ...


35. ASPeCt-Bio: Chlorophyll a in Antarctic sea ice from historical ice core dataset [ASPeCt-Bio]   PARENT DIF
The ASPeCt - Bio dataset is a compilation of currently available sea ice chlorophyll a (chl-a) data from pack ice (i.e., excluding fast ice) cores collected during 32 cruises to the Southern Ocean ...


36. APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980's [APIS]
APIS data were collected between 1994 and 1999. This dataset also includes some historical data collected between 1985 and 1987. Both aerial and ship-board surveys were conducted. Studies on the behaviour ...


37. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM03 [ASAC_1164_AM03]   CHILD DIFs
Amery 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. ...


38. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM03 - video footage [ASAC_1164_AM03_video]   PARENT DIF
Amery 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. ...


39. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04 [ASAC_1164_AM04]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Amery 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. ...


40. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04 - video footage [ASAC_1164_AM04_video]   PARENT DIF
Amery 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. ...


41. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2009-11 - AM05 [ASAC_1164_AM05]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Amery 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. ...


42. Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2010-11 - AM06 [ASAC_1164_AM06]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Amery 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. ...


43. Investigation of sea ice physical processes in East Antarctica during early Spring - Measuring snow thickness over Antarctic sea ice with a helicopter-borne 2-8 GHz FMCW radar [ASAC_2901_RAASTI]
Public Summary for project 2901 This research will contribute to a large multi-disciplinary study of the physics and biology of the Antarctic sea ice zone in early Spring 2007. The physical characteristics ...


44. ASTER On-Demand L2 Polar Surface and Cloud Classification [AST13POL]
This product is discontinued. The ASTER On-Demand Level-2 Polar Surface and Cloud Classification product provides a classification map discriminating between different surface and cloud features ...


45. 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 ...


46. US ITASE-99-1 ice core (Research Funded by NSF OPP) [US_ITASE-99-1]   PARENT DIF
Sub-annually resolved ice core chemistry data from various sites on the Antarctic Ice Sheet were obtained from 1999 to 2008 during the US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) ...


47. Fluid permeability measurements taken on vertical component of sea ice during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Fluid_Permeability]   PARENT DIF
A 9 cm diameter Kovacs corer was used to drill holes partially through the ice. The core was removed, creating a pressure head in the hole. Packers made of ABS tubing wrapped with foam to create a ...


48. Transient and Rapid Glacial Motions, including Glacial Earthquakes [rice_0739444]
(1) This award originally supported a project to study the mode of formation and causes of glacial earthquakes -- which we argued [Tsai et al., J. Geophys. Res., 2008] to be affiliated with iceberg ...


49. DC Conductivity of sea-ice measured during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Ice_Conductivity]   PARENT DIF
DC Electrical: In order to relate the fluid permeability to the electrical properties of sea ice, we also took measurements of the vertical component of the DC electrical conductivity tensor of sea ...


50. Electromagnetic measurement of sea ice thickness on ice stations during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012 [SIPEX_II_Ice_Station_EM]   PARENT DIF
We observed total thickness (snow thickness + ice thickness) of sea-ice floes along 100m transects using an electromagnetic (EM) sensor. The data were read from the EM and written by hand into a ...


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