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Borehole derived Pine Island Glacier mean annual temperatures - collected 2014-2015
Measurements of mean annual temperature in degrees Celsius at 22 sites in Pine Island Glacier, located by hand held Garmin GPS position, and altitude recorded by survey quality Leica GPS.
The mean annual temperature of a remote ice sheet site is generally agreed to be equivalent to the temperature measured at 10m depth in a borehole. This dataset records the 10m temperatures at 22 remote sites in the Pine Island Glacier region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Data were recorded on a single thermistor logging thermometer for a period of 12 to 24 hours on the date noted in table (marked in table as ''Single thermistor'') or as the mean of two cables with parallel triple thermistors measured at a single time (date/time noted in table) after a minimum of 12 hours settling in the borehole (marked in table as ''Average of six thermistors''). Measurements were made independently in two boreholes: one drilled to approximately 12m for deployment of a neutron source ice density probe (marked in table as ''10m temperature neutron probe borehole''); one drilled to approximately 50m during recovery of an ice core (marked in table as ''10m temperature ice core borehole'').
Some have argued that the mean annual temperature is better measured at 15m in a borehole to remove any trace of the seasonal surface temperature cycle. In the table we additionally record the temperature in the ice core borehole at 15m (marked in table as ''15m temperature ice core borehole'') using a logging PT-100 temperature device (marked in table as ''Single PT-100'').
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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00991
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-01-29
- Citation identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00991
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey
Custodian Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council; Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK.
Mulvaney, R.
Originator
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NDGO0001
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NERC OAI Harvesting
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NERC_DDC
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GCMD Parameter Valids
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EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
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EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
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EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice
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EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Temperature
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EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
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EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
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EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice
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EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Temperature
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- Language
- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 2014-12-03
- End date
- 2015-01-19
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
Distributor
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Protocol Linkage Name http
https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show/?entryid=eae547d0-9668-4ba1-9fc4-67929382395f GET DATA
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
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INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
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See the referenced specification
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- No
- Statement
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This data is presented as best quality available.
Metadata
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00991 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-01-29
- Metadata standard name
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NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey
Point of contact
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