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Ocean - Ice Shelf Interaction: Prydz Bay
Entry ID: ASAC_1058

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Summary
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Floating ice shelves interact with the oceans. They drive a vertical overturning circulation, causing relatively warmer water to be transported into the shelf cavity. This warm water melts the shelf, creating a less dense and relatively fresh water that flows out from under the ice shelf. Ice shelves around the Antarctic Continent contribute ~2000 Gt.a-1 of ... View entire text
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: -68.4   S: -69.6   E: 76.0   W: 70.0
Min Depth: 0 Max Depth: 1300

Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2001-01-01
Stop Date: 2001-03-09
Location Keywords
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Platform
MOORINGS Ancillary Description
SHIPS Ancillary Description
Instrument
CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth Ancillary Description
CURRENT METERS Ancillary Description
ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Ancillary Description
ECHO SOUNDERS Ancillary Description
Quality The CTD data are processed by Mr Mark Rosenberg. The procedures that are followed are to the standard required by WOCE. The CTD's temperature sensors are calibrated at the CSIRO Marine Laboratories. The conductivity sensor to standard seawater using guildline salinometers. Accuracies are ~0.001 degrees, ~0.002pss78, rms residual ~0.002pss78.
Access Constraints Any one is welcome to use the available calibrated and processed data. We like to know who is using the data, and for what purpose. The main issue is that our own science activities are not compromised.

See metadata records by Mark Rosenberg for access to these data.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).


No constraints, except standard formatting issues.
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Data Set Progress
IN WORK
Originating Center
Antarctic CRC
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC
Phone: +61 3 6232 3244
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Personnel
NATHANIEL BINDOFF
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: +61 3 6226 2986
Fax: +61 3 6226 2973
Email: n.bindoff at utas.edu.au
Contact Address:
ACE CRC
Private Bag 80
University of Tasmania
City: Hobart
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7001
Country: Australia
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2000-08-09
Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-04-10

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