Density, hydrology and geophysical measurements from the Wilkins Ice Shelf firn aquifer

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Resource Abstract:

Abstract: This dataset compiles a suite of glaciology (density, stratigraphy), hydrology (slug and dilution tests) and geophysical measurements (GPS, GPR, ApRES) to characterize a firn aquifer observed within the Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica.

Citation

Title  Density, hydrology and geophysical measurements from the Wilkins Ice Shelf firn aquifer

publication date 2020-10-21

released date 2021-01-31

cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Forster, Richard

organisation Name  University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, US

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Postal Address:

electronic Mail Address:  rick.forster@geog.utah.edu

cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Koenig, Lora

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cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Miège, Clément

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URL:  http://orcid.org/ORCID:0000-0002-1894-3723

protocol  ORCID

cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Miller, Julie

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cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Miller, Olivia

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cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Montgomery, Lynn

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cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Scambos, Ted

organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449,

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Postal Address:

electronic Mail Address:  tascambos@colorado.edu

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URL:  http://orcid.org/ORCID:0000-0003-4268-6322

protocol  ORCID

cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Solomon, Kip

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cited responsible party - author

individual Name  Wallin, Bruce

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cited responsible party - publisher

organisation Name  U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center

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Keywords:

Theme keywords (keyword):

keyword term:  Firn Aquifer

Theme keywords (method):

keyword term:  Airborne Radar, GPR, Ground Penetrating Radar

Theme keywords (subject):

keyword term:  Firn, Hydrology

Theme keywords (IEDA data type categories):

keyword term:  Glaciology

thesaurus name >

Title  IEDA integrated catalog keyword vocabulary

creation date 2017-10-11

Theme keywords (IEDA feature of interest):

keyword term:  Glaciers/Ice Sheet, Snow/Ice

thesaurus name >

Title  IEDA integrated catalog keyword vocabulary

creation date 2017-10-11

Theme keywords (IEDA topic):

keyword term:  Cryosphere

thesaurus name >

Title  IEDA integrated catalog keyword vocabulary

creation date 2017-10-11

Location keywords:

keyword term:  Antarctica

Location keywords:

keyword term:  Antarctic Peninsula, Wilkins Ice Shelf, Wilkins Ice Shelf

dataCentre Keywords

keyword term:  US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC)

Resource language:   eng

Resource progress code:   Complete

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Constraints

Use limitation statement:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]

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Classification  unclassified

Format

Format name  

Format version  1

Resource extent

Extent description

Antarctic Peninsula; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Wilkins Ice Shelf

Geographic Extent

Geographic Bounding Box

westBoundLongitude  -72

eastBoundLongitude  -71.5

northBoundLatitude  -70.75

southBoundLatitude  -71

Resource extent

Temporal Extent

2018-12-03 2018-12-12

Credits:

funderName:NSF:GEO:OPP:Antarctic Glaciology awardNumber:1745116 awardTitle:Antarctic Firn Aquifers: Extent, Characteristics, and Comparison with Greenland Occurrences

point of contact - pointOfContact

individual Name  Forster, Richard

organisation Name  University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, US

No contact information provided.

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name  landing page

URL:  https://www.usap-dc.org/view/dataset/601390

protocol  WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

link function  information

Description  Link to a web page related to the resource.

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Metadata Information

Metadata data stamp:  2020-10-22T20:41:15Z

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notes:  This metadata record was generated by an xslt transformation from a DataCite metadata record; The transform was created by Damian Ulbricht and Stephen M. Richard. 2017-11-15 these records include new IEDA keywords for geoportal facets Run on 2020-10-22T20:41:15Z

Metadata contact - pointOfContact

organisation Name  Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance

Contact information

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electronic Mail Address:  web@usap-dc.org

Linkage for online resource

URL:  https://www.usap-dc.org/static/imgs/header/usaplogo.png

link function  browseGraphic

Metadata scope code  dataset

Metadata hierarchy level name:  Dataset

Metadata language   eng

Metadata character set encoding:   utf8

Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification

standard version:  2007

Metadata record identifier:  urn:ieda:metadata:Density--hydrology-and-geophysical-measurements-from-the-Wilkins-Ice-Shelf-firn-aquifer

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Metadata record format is ISO19139 XML (MD_Metadata)