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Analysis of snow/ice cores collected from Rothschild, Latady and Smyley Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, 2006
Ground truth measurements in the form of snow/ice cores were obtained from three sites in 2006: Rothschild Island, Latady Island and Smyley Island. The sites selected corresponded to the position of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) deployed during the previous season. At both the Rothschild Island and Smyley Island sites the AWS - due to an unprecedented amount of snowfall - had been buried. Therefore, two cores, 8m and 12m in length, were obtained from the approximate position of the AWS, in addition to the sampling of a snow pit. At the Latady Island site, the top 60cm of the 5m AWS was protruding above the surface - again, due to an unprecedented amount of snowfall. A diagonally descending trench was dug to recover the AWS and two cores were collected at this site.
This work was carried out as part of a project to understand how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere's properties are preserved in the snow,
Photographs of the expedition showing the ground layout, the situation of the cores and what was done when they were gathered are available and stored with the data.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2007-11-20
- Date (Revision)
- 2007-11-20
- Date (Publication)
- 2007-11-20
- Date (released)
- 2007-11-20
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1
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/392d6275-29f6-4ba9-adc9-b4edc416409e
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doi
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- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00294
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Please cite this item as: None
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey Marshall, Gareth
Author British Antarctic Survey Miles, Georgina
Author British Antarctic Survey Turner, John
Author British Antarctic Survey Lachlan-Cope, Thomas
Author British Antarctic Survey Mulvaney, Robert
Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Snow
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth
- EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Ice Core Records
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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air mass origin
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atmospheric preservation
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snow mass accumulation
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- Place
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Rothschild Island Antarctica
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Latady Island Antarctica
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Smyley Island Antarctica
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- no limitations to public access
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- no limitations
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- License
- Other constraints
- This dataset is supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
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url
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- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2006-01-29
- End date
- 2006-02-11
- Supplemental Information
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
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6.18.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show/?entryid=392d6275-29f6-4ba9-adc9-b4edc416409e Get Data
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Data collection:
At the Latady Island site drilling during the daytime proved to be challenging, as the warm air in the hole and around the bit after extraction caused it to heat, melt snow on it, then re-freeze quickly when re-inserted. On occasion this caused the teeth on the drill bit that grasps the core to freeze in the open position this resulted in the first core being somewhat shorter than anticipated. The second core was drilled over night in far cooler conditions, and was extremely successful.
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- 392d6275-29f6-4ba9-adc9-b4edc416409e XML
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- English
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2007-11-20
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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