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Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core
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Summary
Abstract: This award supports a five-year collaborative project to study the physical-properties of the planned deep ice core and the temperature of the ice in the divide region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Data include depths of crusts and annual layers observed visually in the ice core, density of the ice core determined by flotation in isooctane, and images and counts of bubble number-density. Data sets will be completed and extended under the follow-on grant to this one.

Purpose: The intellectual merit of the proposed research is to provide fundamental information on the state of the ice sheet, to validate the integrity of the climate record, to help reconstruct the climate record, and to understand the flow state and history of the ice sheet. This information will initially be supplied to other investigators and then to the public and to appropriate databases, and will be ... View entire text
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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 40 separate but synergistic projects to analyze the ice and interpret the records.

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Description: NSF Award #1043528
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: -79.47   S: -79.47   E: 112.12   W: 112.12

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Originating Center
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Data Center
NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center Supplemental Info
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
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Personnel
RICHARD B ALLEY
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 814 863-1700
Email: ralley at geosc.psu.edu
Contact Address:
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Geosciences
517 Deike Building
City: University Park
Province or State: PA
Postal Code: 16802
Country: USA
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Publications/References
Alley, R.B. "Reliability of ice-core science: Historical insights," Journal of Glaciology, v.56, 2010, p. 1095.

Fegyveresi, J.M., R.B. Alley, M.K. Spencer, J.J. Fitzpatrick, E.J. Steig, J.W.C. White, J.R. McConnell and K.C. Taylor. 2011. Late-Holocene climate evolution at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica: bubble number-density estimates. Journal of Glaciology 57(204), 629-638.

McGwire, KC; McConnell, JR; Alley, RB; Banta, JR; Hargreaves, GM; Taylor, KC. "Dating annual layers of a shallow Antarctic ice core with an optical scanner," JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY, v.54, 2008, p. 831-838.
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2012-06-19
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-08-22

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