Ice Shelf Surface Elevation data: Amery Ice Shelf 1968

Ice shelf surface elevation data from an oversnow ground-based traverse along the centre of the Amery Ice Shelf from A509 (69.06 S, 72.15 E) to T4 (71.22 S, 69.48 E), including two transverse arms; between G1 (69.49 S, 71.72 E) and A119 (69.81 S, 73.28 E); and between T3 (70.79 S, 68.89 E) and T2 (71.00 S, 70.75 E) during the 1968 spring-summer season. More information can be found at the BEDMAP website.


The fields in this dataset are:


Mission ID

Latitude

Longitude

Ice Thickness

Surface Elevation

Water Column Thickness

Bed Elevation

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Ice Shelf Surface Elevation data: Amery Ice Shelf 1968
Date (Publication)
1999-10-07
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/5ad8330bea559

Originator

Allison, I.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

ALLISON, IAN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

ALLISON, IAN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Amery_Ht_1968

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Inland waters
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1968-10-01 1969-02-28
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION
Keywords
  • ANTARCTICA
  • BED ELEVATION
  • BEDMAP
  • ICE THICKNESS
  • LATITUDE
  • LONGITUDE
  • MISSION ID
  • RADIO ECHO SOUNDING
  • RES
  • SOUTHERN PRINCE CHARLES MOUNTAINS
  • SURFACE ELEVATION
  • WATER COLUMN THICKNESS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SURVEYING TOOLS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
  • ACE/CRC
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
licence
Other constraints
The dataset is publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license

Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Amery_Ht_1968 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
free
Planned available datetime
1999-10-07T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
8
Distribution format
  • .csv

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download page for the data

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

BEDMAP Website

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Complete for approximately 570 km of ground survey track. Optical levelling measurements were taken at 300-400 m intervals from sea level at Landing Bluff (69.74 S, 73.71 E) adjacent to Sandefjord Bay, across and along the shelf to J205 on Jetty Peninsula (70.81 S, 68.54 E). Tellurometer closures were obtained for several endpoints of the traverse route to Blustery Cliffs (71.42 S, 67.88 E) on Fisher Massif to the west of the shelf, and New Year Nunatak (71.06 S, 71.49 E) in the Manning Nunataks on the eastern side of the shelf. The data have been checked for consistency with conditions for hydrostatic equilibrium based on RES thicknesses of the ice shelf and a density profile from a borehole at G1. Horizontal distances were calculated by stadia markers within the optical level, by odometer wheel placement of route marker canes every 3.2 km (2 mile), and by tellurometer (EDM) measurements with marked reference points every 5-10 km. Along track accuracy was estimated at approximately 100 m. An entry of -9999 in the spreadsheet indicates null data. Elevation and thickness measurements are presumably given in metres. Raw data were logged manually into field logbooks. Data were also stored in a spreadsheet (MS Excel) ice shelf surface elevations (reduced data).
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
1999-10-07 - record created by Dave Connell. 2018-04-19 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/Amery_Ht_1968

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
2fe9984b-8307-471c-bdf5-098fd393a551

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-29T18:07:55

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Amery_Ht_1968

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
1999-10-07T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2018-04-19

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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