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Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic - Aspect Ice Observations
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SIMBA_Aspect_Ice_Observations
Summary
Abstract:
The dataset contains manual recordings transcribed into electronic format, following the ASPeCt (Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate) protocol, for inclusion in the cruise data set. Although the observations are necessarily subjective to each person's individual biases, when taken as a whole, the data set revealed some statistically valid trends in winter sea ice conditions of Western ...
 Purpose: ASPeCt is an expert working group of the SCAR whose aim is to help improve and standardize understanding of the Antarctic sea ice zone through ongoing field programs, remote sensing and numerical modeling. Towards the end of the cruise as the spring season was approaching, the ice edge seemed to retreat per images transmitted from radar images such as Radarsat and Envisat. With these resources, and the ASPeCt observations, we can determine preliminary ice conditions for this region to set a precedent for future studies. The observational data set has been contributed to an archive consisting of over 100 similar cruise data sets that in aggregate provide a circumpolar view of Antarctic sea ice properties.
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Role:
DIF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2007-08-01
Last DIF Revision Date:
2009-05-08
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