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1. Global 30-Arc-Second Elevation Data Set [GTOPO30]
Digital elevation model (DEM) data are sampled arrays of surface elevations in raster form. A DEM provides elevation values in rows and columns, corresponding to a regular grid of points on the Earth's ...


2. Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery [Landsat_TM]
The idea of a civilian Earth resources satellite was conceived in the Department of Interior in the mid-1960s. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ...


3. World Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey [WORLD_MAPS]
The USGS provides a series of planetary maps featuring more than 750 titles. These include selected maps of the Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and the moons of Jupiter. Planetary maps are available ...


4. Isotope Data from the U.S.-Norway Antarctic Traverse [Steig_0963924]
Ice cores and surface snow samples were collected from in overland traverses in East Antarctica: one from the Norwegian Troll Station to the United States South Pole Station in 2007-2008; and a return ...


5. Landsat-7 Calibration Parameter File V002 [L7CPF2]
The Landsat-7 satellite was launched on April 15, 1999. The Calibration team has recently documented that the gains of the reflective bands have degraded over the past 14 years. On April 1, 2013, ...


6. Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) Imagery [LANDSAT_MSS]
Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) data from the Landsat satellite series are available from the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive located at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS ...


7. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research [SCAR]
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) collection is the largest collection of Antarctic aerial photographs in the world. Aerial photography has been acquired since 1946, ...


8. WAIS Divide Laser Dust Logger Data [bay_0738658]
Preliminary data from an optical log made at WAIS Divide with the laser dust logger in December 2011, in the clear ice at depths between 1403.58 m and 3329.8 m. The Dust Logger measures the amount ...


9. 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 ...


10. 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 ...


11. CORONA Satellite Photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey [CORONA_SATELLITE_PHOTOS]
The first generation of U.S. photo intelligence satellites collected more than 860,000 images of the Earth?s surface between 1960 and 1972. The classified military satellite systems code-named CORONA, ...


12. Mount Erebus Seismic Data [Erebus]
The seismic archive contains short-period and broadband data, primarily from the summit region of Mount Erebus. Online data from short-period and broadband data from 2000-present, ...


13. A Comparison of Conjugate Auroral Electojet Indices [NSF-ANT10-43621]
The auroral electrojet index (AE) is used as an indicator of geomagnetic activity at high latitudes representing the strength of auroral electrojet currents in the Northern polar ionosphere. A similar ...


14. MODIS/Aqua Level 3 Global Ocean Mapped 9 KM Monthly Ocean Color Products [OBPG_MODIS_AQUA_L3_M9M_OC]   PARENT DIF
This data set consists of satellite measurements of global ocean color data obtained by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), in orbit on the Aqua (formerly EOS PM) platform. ...


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. Antarctic Cretaceous-Cenozoic Climate, Glaciation, and Tectonics: Site surveys for drilling from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf [NSF-ANT00-87392]
This award, provided by the Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program of the Office of Polar Programs, supports a collaborative research program in marine geology and geophysics in the southern central ...


17. Landsat 8 [Landsat_8]
This data set is a raster file containing global information for bands 1 through 11 for Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Land Imager (TIRS).


18. Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1 [CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_COMPLETE_V11]
The Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 426 indicators for 239 countries from five major environmental sustainability indicator efforts: the 2006 Environmental ...


19. The Permian-Triassic Transition in Antarctica: Evaluating the Rates and Variability of Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in Terrestrial Organic Matter [NSF-ANT10-39365]
This project studies the Permian-Triassic extinction event as recorded in sedimentary rocks from the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Two hundred and fifty million years ago most life on Earth ...


20. 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 ...


21. Crystalline rocks of the Antarctic Peninsula [dlb_APgeothermochron]
This dataset consists of: (1) a suite of crystalline rocks (primarily granitoids & quartzites, with subordinate gneisses, schists, volcanic rocks, and mafic intrusive rocks) collected from the Antarctic ...


22. Sedimentary rocks of Larsen basin [dlb_LarsenBasin]
This dataset consists of: (1) a suite of sedimentary rocks (primarily sandstones, with subordinate mudstones, conglomerates, glauconites and volcanic ashes) collected from Cretaceous through Paleogene ...


23. 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) ...


24. Polenet East: An International Seismological Network for East Antarctica [NSF-ANT08-38973]
The high elevations of East Antarctica are critical in localizing the initial Cenozoic glaciation and stabilizing it with respect to melting during warm interglacials. However, the geological history ...


25. 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 ...


26. MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day V001 [MOD29P1D1]
Sea ice products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) include level 2 swath data and level 3 gridded day and night composites, at 1 km resolution. Level 3 products consist ...


27. Polenet East: An International Seismological Network for East Antarctica [NSF-ANT08-38934]
The high elevations of East Antarctica are critical in localizing the initial Cenozoic glaciation and stabilizing it with respect to melting during warm interglacials. However, the geological history ...


28. IPY: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate [steffen_0732946]
Our 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. ...


29. 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 ...


30. Linking Modern Benthic Communities and Taphonomic Processes to the Stratigraphic Record of Antarctic Cores [NSF-ANT07-39583]
This project answers a simple question: why are there so few fossils in sediment cores from Antarctica's continental shelf? Antarctica's benthos are as biologically rich as those of the tropics. ...


31. Seasonal Dynamics of Giant Agglutinated Foraminifera [NSF-ANT00-03639]
A seasonal study of the dominant agglutinated foraminiferal assemblage in Explorers Cove, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica is the focus of this research. Studies have shown that the agglutinated foraminifera ...


32. Thermochronologic and modelling test for a Mesozoic West Antarctic Plateau [NSF-ANT07-39781]
This project studies formation of the TransAntarctic Mountains (TAM) through numerical modeling based on cooling histories of apatite mineral grains. The TAM are the highest and longest rift-related ...


33. Cape Adare Longterm Mooring first deployment 2007-2008 currents, temperature, salinity and pressure records [LDEO_CapeAdareMoorings]
This data set contains moored temperature, salinity, and velocity records from a two oceanographic moorings recovered off Cape Adare, spanning the period February 2007 to January 2011. The records ...


34. Collaborative Research: Stable Isotopes of Ice in the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core [cuffey_0537661]
This award supports analyses of stable isotopes of water, dD, d18O and deuterium excess in the proposed West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS) deep ice core. The project will analyze a continuous ...


35. Rift Mechanisms and Thermal Regime of the Lithosphere across Beardmore Glacier Region, Central Transantarctic Mountains, from Magnetotelluric Measurements [NSF-ANT08-38914]
The investigators will examine competing hypotheses for the mechanism of extension and creation of the Transantarctic Mountains, and evolution of the thermal regimes of rifted West Antarctica and ...


36. Rotational temperature studies of the hydroxyl airglow layer above Davis, Antarctica. [Davis_OH_airglow]
These OH rotational temperature data are derived from spectra collected with a Czerny-Turner scanning grating spectrometer operating at Davis station (69S, 78E), Antarctica (see Greet et al., 1998; ...


37. Collaborative Research: Molecular Level Characterization of Organic Matter in Ice Cores using High-resolution FTICR mass spectrometry [hatcher_0739684]
This award supports a project to fully develop the analytical protocols needed to exploit a relatively new technique for the analysis of soluble organic matter in ice core samples. The technique couples ...


38. Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interaction in a Coastal Polynya [NSF-ANT07-39464]
Antarctic polynyas are the ice free zones often persisting in continental sea ice. Characterization of the lower atmosphere properties, air-sea surface heat fluxes and corresponding ocean depth profiles ...


39. Cariaco Basin 50KYr Radiocarbon Calibration and Reconstruction [NOAA_NCDC_PALEO-2004-006]
Cariaco Basin 50KYr Radiocarbon Calibration and Reconstruction. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) 14C data from planktonic foraminifera from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1002, cores 1002D ...


40. Mood states by month at 5 Antarctic research stations [Cross]
The data was obtained from 217 men and women who spent an austral winter at one of five stations (South Pole, Maitri, Great Wall, Vostok, and Arctowski)between 1992 and 2000 and includes ...


41. Ohio State University/American Polar Society Polar Oral History Project [OSUAPS_Polar_Oral_History]
The Polar Oral History Program is administered by The American Polar Society and The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program and funded by the National Science ...


42. Advanced Microstructural Characterization of Polar Ice Cores [baker_0738975]
This award supports a project to use advanced microscopic and spectroscopic techniques to explore critical questions about microstructure in ice cores, in particular the microstructural locations ...


43. Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica [albert_0538495]
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 ...


44. Collaborative Research: Anisotropy, Abrupt Climate Change, and the Deep Ice in West Antarctica [pettit_0940650]
This award supports a project to constrain the accumulation rate, thickness, and temperature history for Siple Dome using a vertical velocity profile that includes the effects of an evolving fabric ...


45. Whole-rock geochemical data for Ferrar Large Igneous Province rocks, Transantarctic Mountains. [Ferrar_Province_Geochemical_Data_DHE_2012]
The data set is for dolerite sills and dikes (Ferrar Dolerite), and basalt lava flows (Kirkpatrick Basalt). The dolerite data come mainly from sill samples collected in the central Transantarctic ...


46. Self-consistent Ice Dynamics, Accumulation, Delta-age, and Interpolation of Sparse Age Data using an Inverse Approach [waddington_0636997]
We 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. ...


47. IPY Research: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP) [blankenship_0733025]
This 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 ...


48. Anisotropy, Abrupt Climate Change, and the Deep Ice in West Antarctica [waddington_0636996]
This record includes two datasets and accompanying code. The anisotropic flow dataset provides velocity and fabric evolution of anisotropic ice for several numerical experiments. The experiments ...


49. Thwaites International Polar Year (IPY) Geophysics, Antarctica [Anandakrishnan_0632198]
A project to study ice sheet history and dynamics on the Thwaites Glacier and Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.


50. Antarctic Local Area Coverage NOAA AVHRR data/imagery [SSEC-AMRC-NOAA-LAC]
The AMRC has been collecting Local Area Coverage (LAC) images from 17 October 1998 to present of the Ronne Ice Shelf Iceberg (scattered coverage when there is partially or totally clear fields of ...


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