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Nitrate and Conductivity Data from the GISP H Core

Entry ID: ARCSS026

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Summary

Abstract: This data set contains nitrate and conductivity measurements taken from the Greenland Summit Ice Sheet Project (GISP) H core. GISP was a decade long project during the 1970s and early 1980s to study the climatic record stored in ice sheets, and involved scientists and funding agencies from Denmark, Switzerland and the United States. Nitrate and electrical conductivity measurements aid in the dating of ice cores by providing information about past volcanic eruptions and climate change. This data set involves a total of 7776 individual analyses from the surface of the core to a depth of 122 meters. The analyses were performed simultaneously on the same 1.5 cm ice core sample for each data series.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: 72.5	S: 72.5	E: -38.5	W: -38.5

Min Depth: 0 M Max Depth: 122 M

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Edward Zeller

Dataset Title: Nitrate and Conductivity Data from the GISP H Core

Dataset Release Date: 2000-01-01

Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO

Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center

Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss026.html

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > GREENLAND

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY > CONDUCTIVITY > ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY

PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > IONS > NITRATE

PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS > CONDUCTIVITY

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

CORING DEVICES

Project

ARCSS > Arctic System Science

ARCSS/GISP2 > Arctic System Science/Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2

GISP2 > Greenland Ice Sheet Project II

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

Ancillary Keywords

ADCC

ARCSS026

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Dataset ID: ARCSS026

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

Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/
Dataset ID: ARCSS026

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC ARCSS 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

Distribution

Distribution Size: 71.088

Distribution Format: Visual FoxPro version 5,Windows 95/98/2000, NT

Fees: Free

Personnel

EI FUJIOKA

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: 919-613-8021

Fax: 919-684-8741

Email: efujioka at duke.edu

Contact Address:

LSRC A321

Box 90328

City: Durham

Province or State: NC

Postal Code: 27708

Country: USA

FALK HUETTMANN

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: +01-907-4747882

Fax: +01-907 4746967

Email: fhuettmann at alaska.edu

Contact Address:

419 Irving I, PO Box 757000

City: Fairbanks

Province or State: AK

Postal Code: 99775-7000

Country: USA

TONY LOCK

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Contact Address:

Canadian Wildlife Service

45 Alderney Drive

City: Dartmouth

Province or State: NS

Postal Code: B2Y 2N6

Country: Canada

Publications/References

The following references refer to the PIROP database and present an overview about the structure, application and value of the data:
-Brown R.G.B. 1967. Sea Birds off Halifax. Canadian Field-Naturalist 81:276-8.
-Brown R.G.B. 1970. Fulmar distribution: a Canadian perspective. Ibis 111:44-51.
-Brown, R.G.B. 1971. PIROP Instruction Manual. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth.
-Brown R.G.B. ... 1973. Transatlantic migration of Fulmars from the European Arctic. Canadian Field-Naturalist 87:312-3.
-Brown R.G.B. 1977. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds Supplement 1 Halifax-Bermuda transects. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
-Brown R.G.B. 1979. Seabirds of the Senegal upwelling and adjacent waters. Ibis 121:283-92.
-Brown R.G.B. 1984. Seabirds in the Greenland, Barents and Norwegian Seas, February-April 1982. Polar Research 2:1-18.
-Brown R.G.B. 1986. Revised Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds. Bedford Institute of Oceanography: Candian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
-Brown R.G.B. 1988. The Wing-moult of Fulmars and Shearwaters (Procellariidae) in Canadian Atlantic Waters. Canadian Field-Naturalist 102:203-8.
-Brown R.G.B. 1991.Marine birds and climatic warming in the northwest Atlantic. In: Montevecchi W.A, Gaston A.J., eds. Studies of high-latitude seabirds.1.Behavioural, energetic, and oceanographic aspects of seabird feeding ecology. Volume Occasional Paper Number 1968. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
-Brown R.G.B and D.N. Nettleship 1983. Seabird distribution studies. (Bedford Institute of Oceanography BIO Review '83). Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa..
-Brown R.G.B., Nettleship D.N., Germain P, Tull C.E., and Davis T. 1975. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
-Diamond A.W. 1985. A computer model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern and arctic Canada. Volume Final Report. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
-Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B. 1986. Converting PIROP counts of seabirds at sea to absolute densities. Progress Notes No 164
-Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B.. 1993 Studies of high-latitude seabirds. 3.A model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern Arctic CanadaMontevecchi WA, ed. Occasional Paper Number 77. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa
-Germain P., Brown R.G.B., and Tull C.E. 1973. Autumn seabird distribution in Canadian Arctic and Greenland waters. Studies on Northern Seabirds. Manuscript Report (No. Huettmann, F. 1997. TraPirp2: SQL PIROP import codes from ASCII Text into dBASE format. ACWERN (Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network), Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
-Huettmann, F. 1998. An Ecological GIS Research Application for the Northern Atlantic-The PIROP Database Software, Environmental Data Sets and the Role of the Internet/WWW. In: Riekert W.-F. and Tochtermann K. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt-Informatik aktuell; Bd.17, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 213-217.
-Huettmann F. 2000a. Environmental Determination of Seabird Distribution in the Northwest Atlantic. Atlantic Cooperative Ecology Wildlife Research Network (ACWERN). University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B./Canada
-Huettmann, F. 2000b. Making use of public large-scale environmental databases from the WWW and a GIS for georeferenced prediction modelling: A research application using Generalized Linear Models, Classification and Regression Trees and Neural Networks. In: Tochtermann, K. and Riekert W.-F. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt- Informatik aktuell; Bd.24, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 308-312.
-Huettmann F. 2000. Seabird migration in the Canadian North Atlantic: moulting locations and movement patterns of immatures. Canadian Journal of Zoology 33:1-25.
-Huettmann, F. and Lock, T. 1997. A new software system for the PIROP database: data flow and an approach for a seabird-depth analysis. ICES Journal of Marine Science 54:518-23.
-Huettmann, F. and Diamond, A.W. 2001a. Using PCA Scores to classify species communities: an example using seabird classifications at sea. Journal for Applied Statistics 28:843-853.
-Huettmann F. and Diamond A.W. 2001b. Seabird colony locations and environmental determination of seabird distribution: A spatially explicit seabird breeding model in the Northwest Atlantic. Ecological Modelling 141: 261-298.
-King, W.B., Watson, G.E. and Gould, P.J. 1967. An application of automatic data processing to the study of the world ocean. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 123, No 3609.
-Lock A.R., Brown R.G.B., Gerriets S.H. 1994. Gazetteer of Marine Birds in Atlantic Canada. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth NS Canada

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DIF Creation Date: 2005-10-24

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-12-20

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