Snow accumulation from the Ferrigno ice core (F10), Bryan Coast, West Antarctica

This dataset provides a 308 year (1703-2010) annual snow accumulation record from the Ferrigno 2010 (F10) ice core. The 136 m core was drilled on the Bryan Coast in Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica, during the austral summer 2010/11. The record was measured using the summer peak in nonsea-salt (nss) SO4, in approximately January to December. Snow accumulation is converted to meters of water equivalent (weq - m) based on measured density profile and correcting for thinning using the Nye model, assuming vertical strain rate. Samples were measured at 5 cm resolution, corresponding to approximately eight samples per year.



Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/J020710/1.

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Alternate title

Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00938
Date (Publication)
2017-06-30
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00938
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council; Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK.

Thomas, E.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Chemistry

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Chemistry

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Ice Core Records > Isotopes

BAS Free-text keywords

  • Ice core

  • Isotope

  • Snow accumulation

  • West Antarctica
Use limitation

This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

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Other restrictions
Other constraints

This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1703-01-01
End date
2010-01-01
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Distributor
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name

    http

    GET DATA
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset

    Domain consistency

    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
    Date
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification
    Pass
    No
    Statement

    Dating method: Annual layer counting - checked using volcanic tie-points (SO4, ECM).

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00938 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2017-06-30
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Point of contact
    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00938

     
     

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