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Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Cryosphere and Oceans
Entry ID: scambos_0732921

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Summary

Abstract: 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 (AP). By making use of a marine research platform (the RV NB Palmer and on-board helicopters) and additional logistical support from the Argentine Antarctic program, the project will bring glaciologists, oceanographers, marine geologists and biologists together, working collaboratively to address fundamentally interdisciplinary questions regarding climate change. The project will include gathering a new, high-resolution paleoclimate record from the Bruce Plateau of Graham Land, and using it to compare Holocene- and possibly glacial-epoch climate to the modern period; investigating the stability of the remaining Larsen Ice Shelf and rapid post-breakup glacier response.

Purpose: The broader impacts of this international, multidisciplinary effort are that it will significantly advance our understanding of linkages amongst the earth's systems in the Polar Regions, and are proposed with international participation (UK, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Argentina) and interdisciplinary engagement in the true spirit of the International Polar Year (IPY).

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Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Description: LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA)

LARISSA is a National Science Foundation funded initiative that will bring an international, interdisciplinary team together to address a significant regional problem with global change implications, the abrupt environmental change in Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf System.

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Description: NSF Award #0732921

Geographic Coverage

N: -60.0 S: -65.0 E: 59.0 W: 63.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2008-05-01

Stop Date: 2013-04-30

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

FIELD INVESTIGATION    [Information]

FIELD SURVEYS    [Information]

LABORATORY    [Information]

Instrument

GPS RECEIVERS    [Information]

Thermistors    [Information]

Cameras    [Information]

GPR >Ground Penetrating Radar    [Information]

SOLARIMETERS    [Information]

AWS >Automated Weather System    [Information]

SONIC ANEMOMETER    [Information]

ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE    [Information]

Project

IPY >INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR [Information]

NSF/OPP >Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation [Information]

Keywords

Larsen Iceshelf

climate change

multi-disciplinary

Antarctic Peninsula

paleoclimate

Holocene

glacier response

ice-glacier interactions

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

University of Colorado - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Data Center

NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center [Information]
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/agdc/

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC AGDC USER SERVICES
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

National Snow and Ice Data Center [Information]
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Personnel

TED SCAMBOS
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 303 492 1113
Email: teds at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

ROB BAUER
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: 303-492-2378
Fax: 303-492-2468
Email: bauer at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
University of Colorado
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
CIRES 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309
Country: USA

Publications/References

Zagorodnov, V., Nagornov, O., Scambos, T. A., Muto, A., Mosley-Thompson, E., Pettit, E. C., and Tyuflin, S.: Borehole temperatures reveal details of 20th century warming at Bruce Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula, The Cryosphere, 6, 675-686, doi:10.5194/tc-6-675-2012, 2012.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2012-06-18

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-06-18

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