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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. 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 ...


3. 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 ...


4. 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 ...


5. 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 ...


6. 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 ...


7. 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.


8. 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 ...


9. 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 ...


10. 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, ...


11. 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 ...


12. 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. ...


13. 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. ...


14. 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. ...


15. 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. ...


16. 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. ...


17. 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. ...


18. 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 ...


19. 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) ...


20. 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 ...


21. 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. ...


22. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1978 - by Peter Quinn [survey_1978_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1978, by Peter Quinn. Taken from the survey report: Purpose: - To provide survey expertise for the Glaciology Traverses south of Casey. - To do survey work for the ...


23. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1979 - by JC Sutton [survey_1979_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1979, by the wintering senior technical officer, JC Sutton. Taken from the survey report: Purpose: - Provision of site details for proposed building program - Extension ...


24. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1982 - by RW Goldsworthy [survey_1982_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1982, by the wintering technical officer, RW Goldsworthy. Taken from the survey report: To provide survey and navigation support for the Glaciology program. To ...


25. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1983 - by Peter James [survey_1983_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1983, by wintering technical officer Peter James. Taken from the survey report: Summer Program A detailed program of measurements was made on the Vanderford Glacier, ...


26. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1984 - by James Clarke [survey_1984_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1984, by the wintering technical officer, James Clarke. Taken from the survey report: To provide survey and navigation support for the International Antarctic Glaciological ...


27. Survey Report - Casey Station, Antarctica, 1985 - by G.B. Lawrence [survey_1985_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1985, by wintering technical officer G.B. Lawrence. Taken from the survey report: Projected Summer Program It is proposed to accurately survey the bedrock in the ...


28. Survey Report - Casey, Antarctica 1981, by GW Petschack [survey_1981_Casey]
Survey report for Casey Station, 1981, by the wintering surveyor, GW Petschack. Taken from the survey report: Details During the 1981 changeover period conduct such survey work as is necessary toward ...


29. Earth gravity field for ice thickness data: LGB traverses 1989-95 [LGB_Gra_traverse]
The Lambert Glacier Basin (LGB) series of five oversnow traverses were conducted from 1989-95. LaCoste and Romberg gravity meters were used to record measurements of the Earth's gravity field approximately ...


30. 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 ...


31. 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 ...


32. 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 ...


33. Amery Ice Shelf Traverse Daily Log, 1970 [ais_1970_log]
The Australian Antarctic Division carried out a traverse to the Amery Ice Shelf in the summer of 1970. A daily log of the activities carried out was maintained, noting what the traverse team did, ...


34. 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 ...


35. Enderby Land Flight Logs For Ice Radar and Navigation, 1977 [enderby_flight_logs_1977]
A 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 ...


36. Glaciology Logs From Mawson Station [mawson_glaciology_logs]
Logs and journals kept of activities carried out at Mawson station. All books archived at the Australian Antarctic Division.


37. Law Dome Field Logs And Strain Grid Results, 1977 [law_dome_1977]
In 1977 several traverses were carried out over the Law Dome area, primarily to drill new ice cores on the dome. The 1974 drill site (near Cape Folger) was redrilled to add instrumentation for inclination, ...


38. Survey Report For IAGP Work At Casey, 1984 [casey_survey_report_1984]
A report on the survey and navigational support for the International Antarctic Glaciological Project (IAGP) provided by the Division of National Mapping. Includes detailed surveying results from ...


39. Survey Report, Heard Island, Surveying and Mapping Field Season 2000-2001 [survey_2000-2001_Heard]
Taken from sections of the report: This report details survey work carried out in the Australian Territory of Heard Island as part of Voyage 2 during October and November 2000 by LANDINFO on behalf ...


40. Environmental Domains of Antarctica Version 2.0 Final Report [EDA_v2]
A report on the physical environment-based classification for the whole Antarctic Continent. This classification built on the success Landcare Research scientists have achieved in developing a classification ...


41. Ice shelf - ocean interaction in the cavity beneath the Amery Ice Shelf [ASAC_1164]   CHILD DIFs
---- Public Summary from Project ---- Most of the snow falling on inland Antarctica drains via large ice streams and floating ice shelves to the sea where it lost by iceberg calving or as melt beneath ...


42. Molecular analysis of microbiota trapped in ancient antarctic glacial ice [ASAC_2763]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2763 See the link below for public details on this project. Ancient Antarctic glacial ice is a potential resource of trapped microorganisms dating back ...


43. IAGP Traverse Interim Survey Report 1973 [iagp_interim_survey_1973]
The Autumn field trip of the 1973 IAGP at Casey carried out a number of surveying operations, recording the location and elevation of a series of snow canes (labelled A001-A015, along B004, B010 and ...


44. 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 ...


45. Survey Information of Casey and Surrounding Areas 1965-1968 [casey_survey_info_1965_1968]
A compilation of survey information from the surveys carried out at and around Casey/Wilkes station area between 1965 and 1968. Includes plotted maps, photocopies of aeriel photography in the area, ...


46. Davis Strain Grid Measurement 1971 [davis_strain_1971]
Strain grid measurements near Davis during the traverse program for the 1971 season. Chaining out from the center pole to one of four corner stakes required two moves with an assumed 600ft "invar" ...


47. Report and Data Summary on Heard Island Expedition 1971 [heard_report_1971]
In 1971, a nine-man French expedition, accompanied by five Australians, occupied the old ANARE base at Atlas Cove between January 25 and March 10. A compilation of the data recorded was made, including ...


48. A CD snapshot of Heard Island data from 1901-2002 held by the AADC [Heard_data_snapshot_1901-2002]
The CD was produced by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre for distribution to Heard Island expeditioners in the 2003/2004 season. The CD contained all publicly available data held by the Australian ...


49. 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 ...


50. Report from the 1985 ANARE expedition to Heard Island [Heard_Island_Report_1985]
Report of the 1985 A.N.A.R.E to Heard Island. This document contains the following scientific reports: Zoology - elephant seals, fur seals, General Zoology - leopard seals, fish, insects, birds; Botany ...


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