Ice Thickness and Surface Elevation, Southeastern Ross Embayment, West Antarctica

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Abstract: Ice surface elevation and ice thickness data are available for a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The investigators utilized a laser altimeter and ice-penetrating radar mounted to a Twin Otter aircraft to survey the ice sheet. Ice surface elevations and ice thickness data, derived from laser altimetry and radar sounding results, are available in ASCII format via ftp. These data are a result of the Corridor Aerogeophysics of the Southeastern Ross Transect Zone (CASERTZ) experiments of the 1990s. The CASERTZ geophysical surveys were aimed at understanding geological controls on ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, ultimately to help assess the potential for ice sheet collapse. Blankenship et al. (2001) used ice surface elevations and ice thicknesses (reported here) to calculate driving stresses across the ice sheet and thus to identify regions of rapid basal movement by ice streams.
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Title  Ice Thickness and Surface Elevation, Southeastern Ross Embayment, West Antarctica
publication date 2004-03-17
cited responsible party - author
individual Name  Blankenship, Donald D.
organisation Name  4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600, Austin, TX, 78759-8500, USA
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electronic Mail Address:  blank@ig.utexas.edu
cited responsible party - author
individual Name  Finn, C. A.
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey,, Denver, Colorado,
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URL:  http://orcid.org/ORCID:0000-0002-6178-0405
protocol  ORCID
cited responsible party - author
individual Name  Morse, David L.
organisation Name  Austin, TX,
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individual Name  Bell, R. E.
organisation Name  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,, Columbia University,
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URL:  http://orcid.org/ORCID:0000-0003-2570-3856
protocol  ORCID
cited responsible party - author
individual Name  Peters, M. E.
organisation Name  Institute for Geophysics,, University of Texas at Austin,
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individual Name  Kempf, Scott D.
organisation Name  Jackson School of Geosciences, , J.J. Pickle Research Campus Bldg. 196, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, Texas, 78758-4445, USA
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individual Name  Hodge, S. M.
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey,, Tacoma, Washington,
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individual Name  Behrendt, J. C.
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey,, Denver, Colorado, and, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research,, University of Colorado at Boulder,
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URL:  http://orcid.org/ORCID:0000-0003-0433-4641
protocol  ORCID
cited responsible party - author
individual Name  Brozena, J. M.
organisation Name  Naval Research Laboratory,, Washington, D.C.,
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cited responsible party - author
individual Name  Studinger, Michael S.
organisation Name  Greenbelt, MD, USA, USA
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electronic Mail Address:  michael.studinger@nasa.gov
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organisation Name  U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center
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Topic Category:   geoscientificInformation
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Resource language:   eng
Resource progress code:   Complete
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Format version  1
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Ross Embayment; West Antarctica
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Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -134
eastBoundLongitude  -104
northBoundLatitude  -80
southBoundLatitude  -84
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Temporal Extent
1991-12-27 1996-01-02
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individual Name  Blankenship, Donald D.
organisation Name  4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600, Austin, TX, 78759-8500, USA
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URL:  http://www.usap-dc.org/view/dataset/609099
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