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1. 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 ...


2. 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 ...


3. 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.


4. 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. ...


5. 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. ...


6. 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. ...


7. 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. ...


8. 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. ...


9. 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. ...


10. 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) ...


11. Time-lapse imagery Kronebreen [org.polarresearch-755]
Time-lapse imagery Kronebreen


12. 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. ...


13. Amery Ice Shelf 1968 Traverse Reports and Logs [AIS_1968_traverse]
In 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 ...


14. 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 ...


15. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Assessments [IPCC]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was organized in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Four series of reports ...


16. Report on Field Work Carried Out In Northern Prince Charles Mountains (NPCM), 1988/89 [npcm_report_1988]
The Glaciology program for 1988/89 consisted of studies of the dynamics and mass flux of the Lambert Glacier in the vicinity of the grounding line between the Lambert and Amery Ice Shelf, and of the ...


17. 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.


18. Mass balance of the Totten basin in East Antarctica: Estimation and calibration from ground, air and space-based observations (TOT-Cal) [AAS_3121]
Linked to this record are a report providing further details about the project, as well as the data from the project. Public Summary Regions of Antarctica are undergoing significant change in response ...


19. IPY: Collaborative Proposal: Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers [das_0632031]
This award supports a project to gather data to better understand the mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet focusing on the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers along the Amundsen Sea coast. ...


20. 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 ...


21. Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System [parizek_0758274]
This NSF-ANT award supports a three-year study to isolate essential physical processes affecting Thwaites Glacier (TG) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica using a suite of existing ...


22. IPY: Collaborative Proposal: Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers [Gogineni_0631994]
This award supports a project to gather data to better understand the mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, in the Pine Island and Thwaites region, through the combination of radar altimetry ...


23. 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 ...


24. Land and sea ice sructure west and south of Ross Island measured by ground penetrating radar, UAV, and helicopter EM bird [K053_2009_2012_NZ_1]
This data set decribes surface and volume properties of snow and ice to validate radar satellite measurements. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) at 500 and 1000GHz provides information on snow layers ...


25. 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 ...


26. Ablation Rates of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica [NSIDC-0326]
This data set provides glacier surface ablation rates for a network of approximately 250 sites on Taylor Glacier, for year 2003. Here sublimation is the dominant ablation mechanism, though a few sites ...


27. 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 ...


28. MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data [NSIDC-0478]
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) project, provides annual ice-sheet-wide velocity maps for Greenland, derived using Interferometric ...


29. North Pole Environmental Observatory PMEL/CRREL 2000-2003 Ice Temperature and Mass Balance Buoy Data [ARCSS128]
This data set contains ice temperature and mass balance data from drifting ice buoys near the North Pole in the Central Basin of the Arctic Ocean. Buoys were deployed each April by the Pacific Marine ...


30. Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System [blankenship_0636724]
This award supports a three-year study to isolate essential physical processes affecting Thwaites Glacier (TG) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica using a suite of existing numerical ...


31. Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica [liston_0537532]
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 ...


32. 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 ...


33. The glaciers, an observatory of climate, exploratory step for Kerguelen component - GLACIOCLIM-KESAACO (KErguelen Surface Ablation, Accumulation and Climate Observation) [1048_0_IPEV_FR]
This proposal is the exploratory step for Kerguelen component of the GLACIOCLIM Observatory. GLACIOCLIM is a French observatory to globally detect, monitor and understand climate and mass balance ...


34. Snow cover and mass balance measurements, Austre Lovenbreen, Svalbard, 79°N [304_1_IPEV_FR]
Dans le cadre du programme d'hydro-glaciologie Hydro-Sensor-FLOWS (IPY #16, IPE #304 et ANR), le glacier Loven Est (Austre Lovenbreen), Svalbard, 79?C est suivi en ce qui concerne la couverture neigeuse ...


35. Freshwater fluxes and climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula: a combined observational and modelling approach [Fresh_Water_Antarctic_Peninsula_Tijm-Reijmer_ALWNPP2010-02]
The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is one of the few regions in Antarctica that experiences significant surface melt and runoff. Being a region of fast atmospheric warming (three to four times the global ...


36. Ice Dynamics and Surface Glaciology along US ITASE Traverse Routes in East Antarctica [hamilton_0440792]
This 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 ...


37. IPY: Investigation of Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance From Satellite Gravity Measurements [chen_0632195]
This award supports a project to assess Antarctic ice sheet mass balance at both continental and regional spatial scales, using high-accuracy satellite gravity measurements from the NASA Gravity Recovery ...


38. Global Glacier Ice Mass Balance Data [WGMS_GLACIER_ICE_MASS_BALANCE]
The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) started to maintain and continue the collection of information on ongoing glacier changes. The Mass Balance Bulletin (MBB), a large part of ...


39. 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 ...


40. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Elevation Change Anomalies in West Antarctica and Dynamics of Subglacial Water Transport Beneath Ice Streams and their Tributaries [tulaczyk0636970]
We performed field and remote sensing investigations of Elevation Change Anomalies (henceforth ECAs) discovered recently in the Ross Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) (Gray et al., ...


41. Collaborative Research: IPY, The Next Generation: A Community Ice Sheet Model for Scientists and Educators With Demonstration Experiments in Amundsen Sea Embayment Region [Tulaczyk0632346]
This award supports a project to create a "Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)". The intellectual merit of the proposed activity is that the development of such a model will aid in advancing the science ...


42. Collaborative Research: Using Fracture Patterns and Ice Thickness to Study the History and Dynamics of Grounding Line Migration and Shutdown of Kamb and Whillans Ice Streams [hulbe_0440670]
This award supports a three year project to develop the tools required to interpret complex patterns of flow features on the Ross Ice Shelf, which record the discharge history the ice streams flowing ...


43. Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse 1989/90 summer season survey report [Survey_1989_90_Lambert]
Report by survey staff on the Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse in summer of 1989/90. Includes original photographic prints. The Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse was one of the projects included in the ...


44. McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) Core Glacier Mass Balance Data, Antarctica [NSIDC-0421]
As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic sampling program has been undertaken to monitor mass balance of the Taylor Valley ...


45. Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica [scambos_0538103]
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 ...


46. Barnes Ice Cap South Dome Trilateration Net Survey Data 1970-1984 [G02178]
The Barnes Ice Cap data set contains survey measurements of a network of 43 stakes along a 10 km flow line on the northeast flank of the south dome of the Barnes Ice Cap. The measurements are of mass ...


47. Glacier Mass Balance and Regime Measurements and Analysis, 1945-2003 [G10002]
This data set consists of glacier regime parameters observed between 1945 and 2003. Data include annual mass balances, ablation, accumulation, and equilibrium-line altitude of mountain and subpolar ...


48. Snow pit measurements from FINNARP 2009 snow team [FINNARP2009_snowpit]
Dataset contains data from 15 snow pits along a snow line. The depth of these snow pits was approximately 1.5 meters. Nine 0.5m meters deep snow pits were also measured. The length of snow line ...


49. Land and sea ice sructure west and south of Ross Island measured by ground penetrating radar, UAV, and helicopter EM bird [K053_2009_2010_NZ_1]   CHILD DIFs
This data set decribes surface and volume properties of snow and ice to validate radar satellite measurements. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) at 500 and 1000GHz provides information on snow layers ...


50. The depth, motion and mass balance of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica [K053_2003_2005_NZ_1]
An 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 ...


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