Giant Icebergs of the Ross Sea, in situ Drift and Weather Measurements, Antarctica

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Abstract: During 2001-2006, 6 giant icebergs (B15A, B15J, B15K, C16 and C25) adrift in the southwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica, were instrumented with global positioning system (GPS) receivers, magnetic compasses and automatic weather stations (AWS), to monitor their behavior in the near-coastal environment and to record their exit into the Southern Ocean. The GPS and AWS data were collected on a 20-minute interval, Many of the station data timeseries are continuous for periods of up to 7 years, with icebergs C16 and B15J having the longest records. The data is considered useful for examining the processes of iceberg drift (and other behaviors) on time scales that are shorter than what is possible through satellite image iceberg tracking. Data are available in comma-delimited ASCII format and Matlab native mat files.
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Title  Giant Icebergs of the Ross Sea, in situ Drift and Weather Measurements, Antarctica
publication date 2008-10-20
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individual Name  Macayeal, Douglas R.
organisation Name  Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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electronic Mail Address:  drm7@uchicago.edu
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individual Name  Okal, Emile
organisation Name  Evanston, Illinois, 60208-2150, USA
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individual Name  Aster, Richard
organisation Name  Socorro, New Mexico, 87801, USA
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individual Name  Bassis, Jeremy
organisation Name  La Jolla, California, 92093-0225, USA
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electronic Mail Address:  jbassis@umich.edu
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organisation Name  U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center
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Resource language:   eng
Resource progress code:   Complete
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Ross Sea
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Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -178
eastBoundLongitude  110
northBoundLatitude  -60
southBoundLatitude  -78
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2001-01-25 2008-06-30
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individual Name  Macayeal, Douglas R.
organisation Name  Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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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 2018-06-21T19:05:27-07:00
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