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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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00294
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-22
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- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00294
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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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
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- air mass origin
- atmospheric preservation
- snow mass accumulation
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2006-01-29
- End date
- 2006-02-11
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- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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- http://data.bas.ac.uk/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00293
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- dataset Dataset
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- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
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- See the referenced specification
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- No special comments
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- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00294 XML
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- EnglishEnglish
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-03-22
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0