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Only data collected in AGASEA is contained in this specific product.\r\nThis data set is linked to PH.D thesis Muldoon, G. 2018 \"West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat during the Last Interglacial\"Spatial and temporal distributions of accumulation rates on the catchment of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica\", University of Texas at Austin\r\n https://doi.org/10.15781/T23B5WS0D\r\nThe internal radar horizon (IRH) was traced semi-automatically by Gail R. Muldoon using Haliburtons\u0027s Landmark software and picker, in a combination of 2D focused and unfocused data.\r\nDepths were calculated using a 2 way velocity in ice of 84.5 m/microsecond, and no firn correction. \r\n\r\nIsochron age is 4711 (+/- 246 ) years. \r\n\r\nFunding for this dataset as provided by NSF grants and The G. 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The work will improve the quantification of long-term mass change rates over Antarctica using GRACE gravity data with a longer record and newer generation(s) of products and will develop advanced numerical forward modeling techniques that can accurately correct leakage effects associated with GRACE data processing, and significantly improve spatial resolution of GRACE mass rate estimates over Antarctica. The work will also contribute to a better understanding of crustal uplift rates due to postglacial rebound (PGR) and present day ice load change over Antarctica via PGR models, GPS measurements, and combined analysis of GRACE and ICESat elevation changes. Inter-annual variations of ice mass over Antarctica will be investigated at continental and catchment scales and connections to regional climate change will be studied. The major deliverables from this study will be improved assessments of ice mass balance for the entire Antarctic ice sheet and potential contribution to global mean sea level rise. The work will also provide estimates of regional ice mass change rates over Antarctica, with a focus along the coast in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, the Peninsula in West Antarctica, and in Wilkes Land and Victoria Land in East Antarctica. Estimates of inter-annual ice mass change over Antarctica at various spatial scales, and assessments of uncertainty of GRACE ice rate estimates and PGR models errors over Antarctica will also be made. The intellectual merits of the proposed investigation include 1) providing improved assessments of Antarctic ice mass balance at different temporal and spatial scales with unprecedented accuracy, an important contribution to broad areas of polar science research; 2) combining high accuracy GPS vertical uplift measurements and PGR models to better quantify long-term crust uplift effects that are not distinguishable from ice mass changes by GRACE; and 3) unifying the work of several investigations at the forefront of quantifying ice sheet and glacier mass balance and crustal uplift based on a variety of modern space geodetic observations. The broader impacts include the fact that the project will actively involve student participation and training, through the support of two graduate students. In addition the project will contribute to general education and public outreach (E/PO) activities and the results from this investigation will help inspire future geoscientists and promote public awareness of significant manifestations of climate change.", "east": 180.0, "geometry": ["POINT(0 -89.999)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; GPS; GRACE; Potential Field; Satellite Data", "locations": "Antarctica", "north": -60.0, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Chen, Jianli", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Long-Term and Interannual Variability of Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance From Satellite Gravimetry and Other Geodetic Measurements", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000415", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Long-Term and Interannual Variability of Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance From Satellite Gravimetry and Other Geodetic Measurements"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "Long-Term and Interannual Variability of Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance From Satellite Gravimetry and Other Geodetic Measurements", "uid": "600159", "west": -180.0}, {"awards": "0632198 Anandakrishnan, Sridhar; 0732844 Anandakrishnan, Sridhar; 0758274 Parizek, Byron", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-110.06 -74.05,-109.582 -74.05,-109.104 -74.05,-108.626 -74.05,-108.148 -74.05,-107.67 -74.05,-107.192 -74.05,-106.714 -74.05,-106.236 -74.05,-105.758 -74.05,-105.28 -74.05,-105.28 -74.31,-105.28 -74.57,-105.28 -74.83,-105.28 -75.09,-105.28 -75.35,-105.28 -75.61,-105.28 -75.87,-105.28 -76.13,-105.28 -76.39,-105.28 -76.65,-105.758 -76.65,-106.236 -76.65,-106.714 -76.65,-107.192 -76.65,-107.67 -76.65,-108.148 -76.65,-108.626 -76.65,-109.104 -76.65,-109.582 -76.65,-110.06 -76.65,-110.06 -76.39,-110.06 -76.13,-110.06 -75.87,-110.06 -75.61,-110.06 -75.35,-110.06 -75.09,-110.06 -74.83,-110.06 -74.57,-110.06 -74.31,-110.06 -74.05))"], "date_created": "Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set consists of experimental output from a higher-order finite-element model that was utilized in conjunction with existing data sets to isolate essential physical processes affecting Thwaites Glacier (TG) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica.", "east": -105.28, "geometry": ["POINT(-107.67 -75.35)"], "keywords": "Amundsen Sea; Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Sheet Model; Thwaites Glacier", "locations": "Thwaites Glacier; Amundsen Sea; Antarctica", "north": -74.05, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Parizek, Byron R.; Blankenship, Donald D.; Dupont, Todd K.; Holt, John W.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System; IPY: Flow Dynamics of the Amundsen Sea Glaciers: Thwaites and Pine Island.", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000699", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "IPY: Flow Dynamics of the Amundsen Sea Glaciers: Thwaites and Pine Island."}, {"proj_uid": "p0000174", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -76.65, "title": "Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System", "uid": "609619", "west": -110.06}, {"awards": "0732804 McPhee, Miles", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(166.25 -77.42)"], "date_created": "Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Integrated and System Science Program has made this award to support an interdisciplinary study of the effects of the ocean on the stability of glacial ice in the most dynamic region the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, namely the Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment. The collaborative project builds on the knowledge gained by the highly successful West Antarctic Ice Sheet program and is being jointly sponsored with NASA. Recent observations indicate a significant ice loss, equivalent to 10% of the ongoing increase in sea-level rise, in this region. These changes are largest along the coast and propagate rapidly inland, indicating the critical impact of the ocean on ice sheet stability in the region. While a broad range of remote sensing and ground-based instrumentation is available to characterize changes of the ice surface and internal structure (deformation, ice motion, melt) and the shape of the underlying sediment and rock bed, instrumentation has yet to be successfully deployed for observing boundary layer processes of the ocean cavity which underlies the floating ice shelf and where rapid melting is apparently occurring. Innovative, mini ocean sensors that can be lowered through boreholes in the ice shelf (about 500 m thick) will be developed and deployed to automatically provide ocean profiling information over at least three years. Their data will be transmitted through a conducting cable frozen in the borehole to the surface where it will be further transmitted via satellite to a laboratory in the US. Geophysical and remote sensing methods (seismic, GPS, altimetry, stereo imaging, radar profiling) will be applied to map the geometry of the ice shelf, the shape of the sub ice-shelf cavity, the ice surface geometry and deformations within the glacial ice. To integrate the seismic, glaciological and oceanographic observations, a new 3-dimensional coupled ice-ocean model is being developed which will be the first of its kind. NASA is supporting satellite based research and the deployment of a robotic-camera system to explore the environment in the ocean cavity underlying the ice shelf and NSF is supporting all other aspects of this study. \n\nBroader impacts: This project is motivated by the potential societal impacts of rapid sea level rise and should result in critically needed improvements in characterizing and predicting the behavior of coupled ocean-ice systems. It is a contribution to the International Polar Year and was endorsed by the International Council for Science as a component of the \u0027Multidisciplinary Study of the Amundsen Sea Embayment\u0027 proposal #258 of the honeycomb of endorsed IPY activities. The research involves substantial international partnerships with the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol in the UK. The investigators will partner with the previously funded \u0027Polar Palooza\u0027 education and outreach program in addition to undertaking a diverse set of outreach activities of their own. Eight graduate students and one undergraduate as well as one post doc will be integrated into this research project.\n", "east": 166.25, "geometry": ["POINT(166.25 -77.42)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; McMurdo; Meteorology; Oceans; Ross Island; Southern Ocean", "locations": "Antarctica; McMurdo; Ross Island; Southern Ocean", "north": -77.42, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "McPhee, Miles G.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research; IPY: Ocean-Ice Interaction in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000043", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research; IPY: Ocean-Ice Interaction in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -77.42, "title": "Ocean-Ice Interaction in the Amundsen Sea Sector of West Antarctica", "uid": "600072", "west": 166.25}, {"awards": "0739654 Catania, Ginny", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-110 -74,-109 -74,-108 -74,-107 -74,-106 -74,-105 -74,-104 -74,-103 -74,-102 -74,-101 -74,-100 -74,-100 -74.2,-100 -74.4,-100 -74.6,-100 -74.8,-100 -75,-100 -75.2,-100 -75.4,-100 -75.6,-100 -75.8,-100 -76,-101 -76,-102 -76,-103 -76,-104 -76,-105 -76,-106 -76,-107 -76,-108 -76,-109 -76,-110 -76,-110 -75.8,-110 -75.6,-110 -75.4,-110 -75.2,-110 -75,-110 -74.8,-110 -74.6,-110 -74.4,-110 -74.2,-110 -74))"], "date_created": "Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set provides a coastline history of the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment and terminus histories of its outlet glaciers derived from those coastlines. 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The data set includes ice thickness, ice sheet bed elevation, and ice sheet surface elevation, derived from ice-penetrating radar and aircraft GPS positions. The data are spaced on a 15 km by 15 km grid over the entire catchment of the glacier, and sampled at approximately 15 meters along track. Most of the radar data used for this dataset has been processed using a 1-D focusing algorithm, to reduce the along track resolution to tens of meters, to improve boundary conditions for ice sheet models. \n\nData are available via FTP in space-delimited ASCII format.", "east": -90.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-107.5 -78)"], "keywords": "AGASEA; Airborne Radar; Amundsen Sea; Antarctica; Elevation; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Thickness", "locations": "Amundsen Sea; Antarctica", "north": -73.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Blankenship, Donald D.; Young, Duncan A.; Holt, John W.; Kempf, Scott D.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000174", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -83.0, "title": "AGASEA Ice Thickness Profile Data from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica", "uid": "609517", "west": -125.0}, {"awards": "0632168 Hulbe, Christina", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-180 -60,-144 -60,-108 -60,-72 -60,-36 -60,0 -60,36 -60,72 -60,108 -60,144 -60,180 -60,180 -63,180 -66,180 -69,180 -72,180 -75,180 -78,180 -81,180 -84,180 -87,180 -90,144 -90,108 -90,72 -90,36 -90,0 -90,-36 -90,-72 -90,-108 -90,-144 -90,-180 -90,-180 -87,-180 -84,-180 -81,-180 -78,-180 -75,-180 -72,-180 -69,-180 -66,-180 -63,-180 -60))"], "date_created": "Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set provides the results of predictive modeling experiments on the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of Antarctica. The models examine how interactions between basal processes and ice sheet dynamics can result in abrupt reconfigurations of ice-sheets, and how those reconfigurations impact other Earth systems. The models were developed by a collaborative effort called the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM).\n\nThe data set contains a MATLAB (.mat) native format file with time evolution of basal temperature fields from a generic ice sheet model with uniform and non-uniform heat flux, a MATLAB script for performing singular value decomposition and analysis of the model fields, and a summary of experimental results in Portable Document Format (.pdf). 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There are at least three levels of nesting: whole, regional, and specific ice streams. Investigators focused on the Thwaites Glacier and the Pine Island Glacier. The model was produced using data from (Holt et al. 2006) and (Vaughan et al. 2006). Data are in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) format and are available via FTP.", "east": 180.0, "geometry": ["POINT(0 -89.999)"], "keywords": "Amundsen Sea; Antarctica; Elevation; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology", "locations": "Antarctica; Amundsen Sea", "north": -60.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Fastook, James L.", "project_titles": "Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA)", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000243", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA)"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "Amundsen Sea Sector Data Set", "uid": "609312", "west": -180.0}, {"awards": "0230197 Holt, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-134.9 -71.7,-129.86 -71.7,-124.82 -71.7,-119.78 -71.7,-114.74 -71.7,-109.7 -71.7,-104.66 -71.7,-99.62 -71.7,-94.58 -71.7,-89.54 -71.7,-84.5 -71.7,-84.5 -72.7,-84.5 -73.7,-84.5 -74.7,-84.5 -75.7,-84.5 -76.7,-84.5 -77.7,-84.5 -78.7,-84.5 -79.7,-84.5 -80.7,-84.5 -81.7,-89.54 -81.7,-94.58 -81.7,-99.62 -81.7,-104.66 -81.7,-109.7 -81.7,-114.74 -81.7,-119.78 -81.7,-124.82 -81.7,-129.86 -81.7,-134.9 -81.7,-134.9 -80.7,-134.9 -79.7,-134.9 -78.7,-134.9 -77.7,-134.9 -76.7,-134.9 -75.7,-134.9 -74.7,-134.9 -73.7,-134.9 -72.7,-134.9 -71.7))"], "date_created": "Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes 5 km gridded data from the Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA) conducted during the 2004-2005 austral summer. Investigators derived maps of the ice sheet surface and subglacial topography, which covers the entire catchments of both the Thwaites Glacier and the Pine Islands Glacier, from airborne survey systems mounted on a Twin Otter aircraft. The surveys had sufficient density to identify critical ice dynamic transitions within the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE). \n\nThe ASE is the only major drainage to exhibit significant elevation change over the period of available satellite observations. Modeling of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) deglaciation pinpointed the Pine Island Glacier and the Thwaites Glacier, which comprise a major portion of the ASE, as the most vulnerable features of the WAIS. Present knowledge of the ice thickness and subglacial boundary conditions in the ASE are insufficient to understand its evolution or its sensitivity to climatic change, and it is not yet determined whether these changes are evidence of ongoing deglaciation or simply a fluctuation that does not threaten the equilibrium of the ice sheet. This research will support the efforts of a community of United States and international researchers to assess the present and predict the future behavior of the ice sheet in the ASE. \n\nThese data are available via FTP.", "east": -84.5, "geometry": ["POINT(-109.7 -76.7)"], "keywords": "AGASEA; Airborne Radar; Amundsen Sea; Antarctica; Elevation; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Solid Earth", "locations": "Antarctica; Amundsen Sea", "north": -71.7, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Holt, John W.; Blankenship, Donald D.; Morse, David L.; Vaughan, David G.; Corr, Hugh F. J.; Young, Duncan A.", "project_titles": "Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA)", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000243", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA)"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -81.7, "title": "Subglacial Topography: Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica", "uid": "609292", "west": -134.9}]

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