Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-22T06:44:56Z GCMD Search: Parameters|CRYOSPHERE|GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS|GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 111 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]joughin_0631973 Airborne Radar-Derived Accumulation Rates over Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers -124.8,-80.8,-86.7,-73.9 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-05-02T04:00:00Z This data set includes radar-derived annual accumulation rates over Thwaites Glacier between 1980 and 2009 and a gridded climatology (1985-2009) of snow accumulation over Pine Island and Thwaites ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]KPDC_STGEMC_KSJ_2006 Simulation of a tidewater glacier evolution in Marian Cove, King George Island, Antarctica 2013-05-01T04:00:00Z Glacier changes in Marian Cove, King George Island (KGI) were investigated on the basis of observed and modeled data. Air temperature observations for the past 51 years recorded at the Russian Bellingshausen ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]bell_0636883 Subglacial Lakes and the Onset of Ice Streaming: Recovery Lakes 20.0,-90.0,50.0,-75.0 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z 2013-04-04T04:00:00Z This award support a project to study the role that subglacial water plays in the overall stability of major ice sheets. http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM03 Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM03 70.332,-70.561,70.333,-70.56 2005-12-13T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-05T05:00:00Z Amery Ice Shelf AM03 borehole drilled mid-December 2005. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM03_video Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM03 - video footage 70.332,-70.561,70.333,-70.56 2005-12-13T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-05T05:00:00Z Amery Ice Shelf AM03 borehole drilled mid-December 2005. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM04 Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04 70.29,-69.9,70.3,-69.89 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-05T05:00:00Z Amery Ice Shelf AM04 borehole drilled mid-January 2006. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM04_video Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2005-06 - AM04 - video footage 70.29,-69.9,70.3,-69.89 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-05T05:00:00Z Amery Ice Shelf AM04 borehole drilled mid-January 2006. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM05 Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2009-11 - AM05 69.6805,-70.2292,69.6805,-70.2292 2009-12-19T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-05T05:00:00Z Amery Ice Shelf AM05 borehole drilled mid-December 2009. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1164_AM06 Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2010-11 - AM06 71.3679,-70.2428,71.3679,-70.2428 2010-01-07T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-02-05T05:00:00Z Amery Ice Shelf AM06 borehole drilled early January 2010. Sub-shelf water profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days. Partial video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]US_ITASE-99-1 US ITASE-99-1 ice core (Research Funded by NSF OPP) -122.63,-80.62,-122.63,-80.62 1713-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-12-31T00:00:00Z 2013-01-24T05:00:00Z Sub-annually resolved ice core chemistry data from various sites on the Antarctic Ice Sheet were obtained from 1999 to 2008 during the US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]org.polarresearch-755 Time-lapse imagery Kronebreen 12.789825,78.87531,12.789825,78.87531 2007-06-13T00:00:00Z 2008-08-03T00:00:00Z 2013-01-14T05:00:00Z Time-lapse imagery Kronebreen http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]steffen_0732946 IPY: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z 2013-01-07T05:00:00Z Our ground penetrating radar surveys focused on key structural features of the ice shelf, including basal crevasses, marine ice and rifts. Here we present our published work on basal crevasses. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AIS_1968_traverse Amery Ice Shelf 1968 Traverse Reports and Logs 65.0,-74.0,74.0,-68.0 1968-01-27T00:00:00Z 1969-02-18T00:00:00Z 2012-12-10T05:00:00Z In 1968 the Australian Antarctic Division had a team of four people spend just over a year on the Amery Ice Shelf, undertaking a range of studies including ice velocity determination (horizontal and ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]iagp_casey_traverse_results Data Report on 1981 Traverses From Casey For IAGP 110.0,-67.0,111.0,-66.0 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z 1981-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-11-29T05:00:00Z The Casey Traverse Program was Australia's major contribution to the International Antarctic Glaciological Project, aimed at determining the galciological regime and processes, and deducting some ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Assessments -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2012-11-02T04:00:00Z The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was organized in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Four series of reports ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]npcm_report_1988 Report on Field Work Carried Out In Northern Prince Charles Mountains (NPCM), 1988/89 62.0,-75.0,70.0,-66.0 1990-01-02T00:00:00Z 1990-02-18T00:00:00Z 2012-11-01T04:00:00Z The Glaciology program for 1988/89 consisted of studies of the dynamics and mass flux of the Lambert Glacier in the vicinity of the grounding line between the Lambert and Amery Ice Shelf, and of the ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Anandakrishnan_0632198 Thwaites International Polar Year (IPY) Geophysics, Antarctica 110.0,-74.0,110.0,-74.0 2008-11-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-30T00:00:00Z 2012-09-04T04:00:00Z A project to study ice sheet history and dynamics on the Thwaites Glacier and Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AAS_3121 Mass balance of the Totten basin in East Antarctica: Estimation and calibration from ground, air and space-based observations (TOT-Cal) 109.5,-68.75,118.0,-65.5 2009-09-30T00:00:00Z 2012-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-07-23T04:00:00Z Linked to this record are a report providing further details about the project, as well as the data from the project. Public Summary Regions of Antarctica are undergoing significant change in response ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]das_0632031 IPY: Collaborative Proposal: Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers 2012-06-22T04:00:00Z This award supports a project to gather data to better understand the mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet focusing on the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers along the Amundsen Sea coast. ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]scambos_0732921 Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Cryosphere and Oceans 63.0,-65.0,59.0,-60.0 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z 2012-06-18T04:00:00Z This award supports the cryospheric and oceano-graphic components of an integrated multi-disciplinary program to address these rapid and fundamental changes now taking place in Antarctic Peninsula ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]parizek_0758274 Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System -110.058,-76.6451,-105.2773,-74.0548 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z 2591-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-06-07T04:00:00Z This NSF-ANT award supports a three-year study to isolate essential physical processes affecting Thwaites Glacier (TG) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica using a suite of existing ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Gogineni_0631994 IPY: Collaborative Proposal: Constraining the Mass-Balance Deficit of the Amundsen Coast's Glaciers -137.0,-80.5,-88.0,-74.0 2009-12-24T00:00:00Z 2010-01-19T00:00:00Z 2012-06-01T04:00:00Z This award supports a project to gather data to better understand the mass balance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, in the Pine Island and Thwaites region, through the combination of radar altimetry ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_2085 Ice thickness, mass balance and dynamics of the ice sheet east of Davis, and of the Lambert Glacier 78.0,-70.0,80.0,-67.0 1997-09-30T00:00:00Z 2001-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-31T04:00:00Z Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2085 See the link below for public details on this project. ---- Public Summary from Project ---- Over the past 20 years, Australian glaciologists have ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K053_2009_2012_NZ_1 Land and sea ice sructure west and south of Ross Island measured by ground penetrating radar, UAV, and helicopter EM bird 163.1832,-78.0665,167.2763,-76.9648164.8,-77.8742,166.8,-77.5667163.6446,-78.0411,167.4819,-77.03165.3333,-77.8742,166.5,-77.6667 2009-10-31T00:00:00Z 2009-11-26T00:00:00Z 2011-11-20T00:00:00Z 2011-12-05T00:00:00Z 2012-05-31T04:00:00Z This data set decribes surface and volume properties of snow and ice to validate radar satellite measurements. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) at 500 and 1000GHz provides information on snow layers ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0507 GPS Ice Flow Measurements, Allan Hills, Antarctica 158.25,-76.833336,159.0,-76.666664 1997-12-04T00:00:00Z 2010-12-19T00:00:00Z 2012-05-15T04:00:00Z This data set includes includes high-precision GPS measurements of steel poles within the Allan Hills Main Ice Field, Near Western Ice Field, and extending to the eastern edge of the Middle Western ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0326 Ablation Rates of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica 160.0,-78.0,163.0,-77.833336 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z This data set provides glacier surface ablation rates for a network of approximately 250 sites on Taylor Glacier, for year 2003. Here sublimation is the dominant ablation mechanism, though a few sites ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0498 MEaSUREs Antarctic Grounding Line from Differential Satellite Radar Interferometry -180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.0 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides 17 years of comprehensive high-resolution mapping of grounding lines ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0478 MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data -75.0,60.0,-14.0,83.0 2000-09-03T00:00:00Z 2001-01-24T00:00:00Z 2005-12-13T00:00:00Z 2006-04-20T00:00:00Z 2006-12-18T00:00:00Z 2007-04-15T00:00:00Z 2012-05-14T04:00:00Z This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) project, provides annual ice-sheet-wide velocity maps for Greenland, derived using Interferometric ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]ARCSS128 North Pole Environmental Observatory PMEL/CRREL 2000-2003 Ice Temperature and Mass Balance Buoy Data -169.041,71.026,87.6176,89.689 2000-04-20T00:00:00Z 2003-02-28T00:00:00Z 2012-05-11T04:00:00Z This data set contains ice temperature and mass balance data from drifting ice buoys near the North Pole in the Central Basin of the Arctic Ocean. Buoys were deployed each April by the Pacific Marine ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]blankenship_0636724 Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System -120.0,-80.0,-90.0,-75.0 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z 2005-01-29T00:00:00Z 2012-04-18T04:00:00Z This award supports a three-year study to isolate essential physical processes affecting Thwaites Glacier (TG) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica using a suite of existing numerical ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]liston_0537532 Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica 0.0,-87.0,60.0,-72.0 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z 2012-03-23T04:00:00Z This award supports a project of scientific investigations along two overland traverses in East Antarctica: one going from the Norwegian Troll Station (72deg. S, 2deg. E) to the United States South ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[IPEV]411_0_IPEV_FR The GLACIOCLIM Surface Antarctic Mass BAlance (SAMBA) project - Mass balance and meteorological data in Adelie Land and at Dome C 123.3963,-75.32596,139.8988,-66.69514 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-02-12T00:00:00Z 2012-01-27T05:00:00Z This is the Antarctic component of the GLACIOCLIM observatory managed at the LGGE (Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de G?ophysique de l'Environnement), to detect, monitor and understand climate and mass ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[IPEV]1048_0_IPEV_FR The glaciers, an observatory of climate, exploratory step for Kerguelen component - GLACIOCLIM-KESAACO (KErguelen Surface Ablation, Accumulation and Climate Observation) 69.166,-49.416,69.183,-49.333 2010-12-19T00:00:00Z 2011-01-08T00:00:00Z 2012-01-27T05:00:00Z This proposal is the exploratory step for Kerguelen component of the GLACIOCLIM Observatory. GLACIOCLIM is a French observatory to globally detect, monitor and understand climate and mass balance ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[IPEV]304_1_IPEV_FR Snow cover and mass balance measurements, Austre Lovenbreen, Svalbard, 79°N 2012-01-25T05:00:00Z Dans le cadre du programme d'hydro-glaciologie Hydro-Sensor-FLOWS (IPY #16, IPE #304 et ANR), le glacier Loven Est (Austre Lovenbreen), Svalbard, 79?C est suivi en ce qui concerne la couverture neigeuse ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Fresh_Water_Antarctic_Peninsula_Tijm-Reijmer_ALWNPP2010-02 Freshwater fluxes and climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula: a combined observational and modelling approach -63.0,-68.0,-61.0,-65.0 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-12-31T00:00:00Z 2012-01-05T05:00:00Z The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is one of the few regions in Antarctica that experiences significant surface melt and runoff. Being a region of fast atmospheric warming (three to four times the global ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]hamilton_0440792 Ice Dynamics and Surface Glaciology along US ITASE Traverse Routes in East Antarctica 0.0,-90.0,166.67,-77.85 2011-12-01T05:00:00Z This award supports a series of field measurements that will improve our understanding of the East Antarctic ice sheet. The objectives of this project are to take advantage of the overland traverse ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]chen_0632195 IPY: Investigation of Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance From Satellite Gravity Measurements 180.0,-90.0,180.0,-60.0 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z 2011-08-31T00:00:00Z 2011-11-29T05:00:00Z This award supports a project to assess Antarctic ice sheet mass balance at both continental and regional spatial scales, using high-accuracy satellite gravity measurements from the NASA Gravity Recovery ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]WGMS_GLACIER_ICE_MASS_BALANCE Global Glacier Ice Mass Balance Data -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-08-31T04:00:00Z The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) started to maintain and continue the collection of information on ongoing glacier changes. The Mass Balance Bulletin (MBB), a large part of ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Vostok_accum Millennially averaged accumulation rates for the Lake Vostok region inferred from deep internal layers 68.4102,-79.0715,80.5377,-75.6688 2011-08-23T04:00:00Z The depths of radar-detected internal layers can be used to infer the spatial variability of accumulation rates. Here we infer accumulation rates from three radar layers (26, 35 and 41ka old) in the ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]tulaczyk0636970 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Elevation Change Anomalies in West Antarctica and Dynamics of Subglacial Water Transport Beneath Ice Streams and their Tributaries 2011-08-04T04:00:00Z We performed field and remote sensing investigations of Elevation Change Anomalies (henceforth ECAs) discovered recently in the Ross Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) (Gray et al., ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Tulaczyk0632346 Collaborative Research: IPY, The Next Generation: A Community Ice Sheet Model for Scientists and Educators With Demonstration Experiments in Amundsen Sea Embayment Region 2011-07-07T04:00:00Z This award supports a project to create a "Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)". The intellectual merit of the proposed activity is that the development of such a model will aid in advancing the science ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]hulbe_0440670 Collaborative Research: Using Fracture Patterns and Ice Thickness to Study the History and Dynamics of Grounding Line Migration and Shutdown of Kamb and Whillans Ice Streams 2011-07-07T04:00:00Z This award supports a three year project to develop the tools required to interpret complex patterns of flow features on the Ross Ice Shelf, which record the discharge history the ice streams flowing ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]Survey_1989_90_Lambert Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse 1989/90 summer season survey report 55.7,-73.8,62.0,-66.0 1989-12-04T00:00:00Z 1990-02-13T00:00:00Z 2011-06-13T04:00:00Z Report by survey staff on the Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse in summer of 1989/90. Includes original photographic prints. The Lambert Glacier Basin Traverse was one of the projects included in the ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSIDC-0421 McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) Core Glacier Mass Balance Data, Antarctica 161.04,-78.08,163.03,-77.3 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z 2011-03-03T05:00:00Z As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic sampling program has been undertaken to monitor mass balance of the Taylor Valley ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]scambos_0538103 Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica 2.5333,-90.0,2.5333,-72.01667 2008-12-23T00:00:00Z 2009-02-21T00:00:00Z 2011-03-01T05:00:00Z This award supports a project of scientific investigations along two overland traverses in East Antarctica: one going from the Norwegian Troll Station (72deg. S, 2deg. E) to the United States South ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]G02178 Barnes Ice Cap South Dome Trilateration Net Survey Data 1970-1984 -72.166664,69.7,-72.066666,69.833336 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z 1984-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-30T05:00:00Z The Barnes Ice Cap data set contains survey measurements of a network of 43 stakes along a 10 km flow line on the northeast flank of the south dome of the Barnes Ice Cap. The measurements are of mass ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]G10002 Glacier Mass Balance and Regime Measurements and Analysis, 1945-2003 -180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-12-28T05:00:00Z This data set consists of glacier regime parameters observed between 1945 and 2003. Data include annual mass balances, ablation, accumulation, and equilibrium-line altitude of mountain and subpolar ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]FINNARP2009_snowpit Snow pit measurements from FINNARP 2009 snow team -14.305,-74.48032,-11.52118,-72.75407 2009-12-08T00:00:00Z 2010-01-20T00:00:00Z 2010-12-08T05:00:00Z Dataset contains data from 15 snow pits along a snow line. The depth of these snow pits was approximately 1.5 meters. Nine 0.5m meters deep snow pits were also measured. The length of snow line ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K053_2009_2010_NZ_1 Land and sea ice sructure west and south of Ross Island measured by ground penetrating radar, UAV, and helicopter EM bird 163.1832,-78.0665,167.2763,-76.9648 2009-10-31T00:00:00Z 2009-11-26T00:00:00Z 2010-09-20T04:00:00Z This data set decribes surface and volume properties of snow and ice to validate radar satellite measurements. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) at 500 and 1000GHz provides information on snow layers ... http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K053_2003_2005_NZ_1 The depth, motion and mass balance of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica 164.2167,-78.275,168.2697,-77.7155 2003-11-07T00:00:00Z 2004-01-23T00:00:00Z 2004-11-03T00:00:00Z 2005-02-03T00:00:00Z 2010-08-30T04:00:00Z An examination of the McMurdo Ice Shelf processes was carried out over two field seasons, 2003-2005. Measurements of surface ice motion and mass balance were made by placing stakes across the McMurdo ...