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Anisotropy, Abrupt Climate Change, and the Deep Ice in West Antarctica

Entry ID: waddington_0636996

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Summary

Abstract: 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 examine how differing stress regimes and initial c-axis crystal fabrics can affect flow. Contained are VTU format files of finite element output of velocity (m/yr) as well as the second order fabric ...

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Description: The U.S research community is conducting a deep ice coring project in West Antarctica for studies of climate, ice sheet history and cryobiology. This project is collecting a deep ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) ice flow divide and integrating approximately 20 separate but synergistic projects to analyze the ice and interpret the records.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -75.0

S: -85.0

E: -105.0

W: -165.0

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS

CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

COMPUTERS

Project

WAISDIVIDE > West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Project

Ancillary Keywords

Siple Dome

Antarctica

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

University of Washington

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center

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

NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center

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

Personnel

EDWIN D WADDINGTON

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: 206 543 4585

Fax: 206 543 0489

Email: edw at ess.washington.edu

Contact Address:

University of Washington

Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences

Box 351310

City: Seattle

Province or State: WA

Postal Code: 98195-1310

Country: USA

NSIDC AGDC USER SERVICES

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

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

Publications/References

Steig, E. J. et al. Recent climate and ice-sheet changes in West Antarctica compared with the past 2,000 years. Nature Geosci 6, 372-375, doi:10.1038/ngeo1778 (2013).

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Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2013-05-09

Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-05-10

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