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New Zealand International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition (NZ ITASE) - Climate variability measured from ice cores taken along the Victoria Land Coast

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Title: New Zealand International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition (NZ ITASE) - Climate variability measured from ice cores taken along the Victoria Land Coast

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Abstract:: The climate of the Victoria Land Coast is created by the interacting influences of the Dry Valleys, East Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Ross Sea. Slight changes can significantly alter local weather patterns and as such a climate record of the area provides ideal opportunities to study rapid, high frequency climatic variations. International polar ice coring programmes (e.g. GISP and Vostok) have provided powerful new insights into Earth's climate back 400,000 years, from the diverse inventory of atmospheric information stored both within the ice and trapped air bubbles. To understand and predict the local response to anthropogenically induced global warming seen in these "global" ice cores, the focus of ice core research in Antarctica is moving to the acquisition of high-resolution regional paleoclimatic archives of annual-scale that overlap with and extend the instrumental records of the last 40 years back several thousand years. This has been a key motivation behind the US-led International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) of which New Zealand is a member. The New Zealand project's objective is to recover a series of ice cores from glaciers along a 14-degree latitudinal transect of the climatically sensitive Victoria Land coastline and thereby directly contribute a critical dataset to ITASE. The NZ ITASE sites (including two sites at Victoria Lower Glacier, Baldwin Glacier, Wilson Piedmont Glacier, Polar Plateau, Evans Piedmont Glacier, Mt Erebus Saddle, Whitehall Glacier, Skinner Saddle and Gawn Ice Piedmont Glacier with future sites planned at Beardmore Glacier, Roosevelt Island, and coastal sites in West Antarctica) have been chosen to capture and quantify the steep climate gradients from the Scott Coast to the Polar Plateau, the local climate system of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, and the effect of altitude within the Transantarctic Mountains. Coastal sites are especially climate sensitive and show potential to archive local, rapid climate change events that are subdued or lost in the 'global' inland ice core records. Investigation and datasets include: GPR/GPS surveying to map bedrock topography and internal glacial structure and glacier topography, firn and ice cores to quantify the variability of climate record with analysis of temperature, crystal structure, crystal geometry, density of the snow, melt, dust/tephra occurrence, gas content, porosity, gas bubble size and geometry, snow profiles were analysed for ion content, isotopic ratios, dust content, beta radioactivity, chemical properties and mineralogy to transfer functions with the meterological record, borehole temperature and light penetration, submergence velocity measurements to analyse the mass balance of the glaciers, meterological data and ablation measurements.
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Supplemental_Information:: REFERENCE: Bertler, N.A.N. 2003 Understanding the climate behavior of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, from coastal ice cores. Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington. Bertler, N.A.N. Barrett, P.J. Mayewski, P.A. Fogt, R.L. Kreutz, K.J. Shulmeister, J. El Nino suppresses Antarctic warming. Geophysical research letters 31, 2004. Bertler, N.A.N. Barrett, P.J. Mayewski, P.A. Fogt, R.L. Kreutz, K.J. Shulmeister, J. Reply to comment by Doran et al. on “El Nino suppresses Antarctic warming”. Geophysical research letters 32: 2005. Bertler, N.A.N. Mayewski, P.A. Barrett, P.J. Sneed, S.B. Handley, M.J. Kreutz, K.J. Monsoonal circulation of the McMurdo Dry Valleys -Signal from the snow chemistry. Annals of glaciology 39: 139-145, 2004. Bertler, N.A.N. Naish, T.R. Mayewski, P.A. Barrett, P.J. Opposing oceanic and atmospheric ENSO influences on the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica. Advances in geosciences 6: 83-86, 2006. Bertler, N.A.N. Mayewski, P.A. Aristarain, A. Barrett, P. Becagli, S. Bernardo, R. Bo, S. Xiao, C. Curran, M. Qin, D. Antarctic Snow Chemistry. Annals of glaciology 41: 167-179, 2005. Bertler, N.A.N. Barrett, P.J. Mayewski, P.A. Sneed, S.B. Naish, T.R. Morgenstern, U. Solar forcing recorded by aerosol concentrations in coastal Antarctic glacier ice, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Annals of glaciology 41: 52-56, 2005. Bertler, N.A.N. Naish, T.R. Oerter, H. Kipfstuhl, S. Barrett, P.J. Mayewski, P.A. Kreutz, K. 2006 The effects of joint ENSO–Antarctic Oscillation forcing on the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Antarctic science 18(4): 507-514. Mayewski, P.A. Frezzotti, M. Bertler, N.A.N. van Ommen, T. Hamilton, G.S. Jacka, T.H. Welch, B. Frey, M. Qin, D. Ren, J. The International Trans-Antarctic Scientifc Expedition (ITASE) - An Overview. Annals of glaciology 41: 10-13, 2005. Patterson, N.G. Bertler, N.A.N. Naish, T.R. Morgenstern, U. ENSO variability in the deuterium excess record of a coastal Antarctic ice core from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land. Annals of glaciology 41: 140-146, 2005. Witherow, R. Lyons, W.B. Bertler, N.A.N. Welch, K.A. Mayewski, P.A. Sneed, S.B. Nylen, T. Handley, M.J. Fountain, A. 2006 The aeolian flux of calcium, chloride and nitrate to the McMurdo Dry Valleys landscape: evidence from snow pit analysis. Antarctic science 18(4): 497-505. Alloway, B.V., Lowe, D.J. , Barrell, D.J.A., Newnham, R.M., Almond, P.C., Augustinus, P.C., Bertler, N.A.N., Carter, L., Litchfield, N.J., McGlone, M.S., Shulmeister, J., Vandergoes, M.J., Williams, P.W. And Members, a.N.-i. 2007. Towards a climate event stratigraphy for New Zealand over the past 30,000 years. Journal of Quaternary Science 22: 9-35. Mayewski, P.A. Frezzotti, M. Bertler, N.A.N. van Ommen, T. Hamilton, G.S. Jacka, T.H. Welch, B. Frey, M. Qin, D. Ren, J. The International Trans-Antarctic Scientifc Expedition (ITASE) - An Overview. Annals of glaciology 41: 10-13, 2005.

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Beginning_Date: 19991124
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Progress: In Work
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West_Bounding_Coordinate: 159.8666
East_Bounding_Coordinate: 167.6666
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South_Bounding_Coordinate: -77.7166

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > ICE CORE RECORDS
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > FIRN
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > BOREHOLES
Theme_Keyword: CORING DEVICES
Theme_Keyword: MMS > METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Theme_Keyword: GPS > GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
Theme_Keyword: GPR > GROUND PENETRATING RADAR
Theme_Keyword: LTER > LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH
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Theme_Keyword: EBA > EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY IN THE ANTARCTIC
Theme_Keyword: IPICS > INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS IN ICE CORE SCIENCE
Theme_Keyword: ITASE > INTERNATIONAL TRANS ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION
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Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > MT EREBUS SADDLE
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > VICTORIA LAND COAST
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > VICTORIA LOWER GLACIER
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > GAWN ICE PIEDMONT GLACIER
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > SKINNER SADDLE
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > WHITEHALL GLACIER
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > EVANS PIEDMONT GLACIER
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > POLAR PLATEAU
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > WILSON PIEDMONT GLACIER
Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > BALDWIN GLACIER
Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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Contact_Person: NANCY BERTLER

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: Antarctic Research Center
Address: Victoria University of Wellington
Address: PO BOX 600
City: Wellington
Postal_Code: 6140
Country: New Zealand

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +64 4 463 6196

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +64 4 463 5186

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Nancy.Bertler@vuw.ac.nz

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Contact_Organization: NZ/NZAI/ANZ > Antarctica New Zealand, New Zealand Antarctic Institute, New Zealand
Contact_Person: SHULAMIT GORDON

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Address: Antarctica New Zealand
Address: Private Bag 4745
City: Christchurch
Country: New Zealand

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +64 3 358 0200

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +64 3 358 0211

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: s.gordon@antarcticanz.govt.nz

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The IGS global system of satellite tracking stations, Data Centers, and Analysis Centers puts high-quality GPS data and data products on line in near real time to meet the objectives of a wide range of scientific and engineering applications and studies.

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Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data This database contains information regarding stable oxygen isotopes of snow pits at four sites: Polar Plateau, Victoria Lower Glacier, Wilson Piedmont Glacier and Baldwin Valley Glacier

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Metadata_Date: 20050922

Metadata_Review_Date: 20090501

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Contact_Person: CEISHA POIROT

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Contact_Person: SHULAMIT GORDON

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: Antarctica New Zealand
Address: Private Bag 4745
City: Christchurch
Country: New Zealand

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: Antarctica New Zealand
Address: Private Bag 4745
City: Christchurch
Country: New Zealand

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +64 3 358 0200

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +64 3 358 0211

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: c.poirot@antarcticanz.govt.nz

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: s.gordon@antarcticanz.govt.nz

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