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(2020), including; the 125m-resolution fracture map, the spatial distribution of fracture depths and the required initial flaw size for hydrofracture, which is calculated using linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) according to the ice-shelf stress fields and thickness. The dimensionless stress (Rxx_bar, defined in Lai et al. (2020)) governs how fractures behave. Using a dimensionless stress criteria we have determined which ice-shelf areas are vulnerable to hydrofracture if inundated with melt water (Rxx_bar \u003eRxx*_bar).", "east": 180.0, "geometry": ["POINT(0 -89.999)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Computer Model; Fractures; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Meltwater; Model Data", "locations": "Antarctica", "north": -60.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Lai, Ching-Yao", "project_titles": "Satellite observations and modelling of surface meltwater flow and its impact on ice shelves", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010184", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Satellite observations and modelling of surface meltwater flow and its impact on ice shelves"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "Vulnerability of Antarctica\u2019s ice shelves to meltwater-driven fracture", "uid": "601395", "west": -180.0}, {"awards": "1743326 Kingslake, Jonathan", "bounds_geometry": null, "date_created": "Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "In February 2018, we hosted a workshop on Antarctic Surface Hydrology and Future Ice-shelf Stability at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York. Funding for the workshop was provided by the\r\nU.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Glaciology Program (award number: 1743326). The\r\naims of the workshop were to: (1) establish the state-of-the-science of Antarctic surface hydrology; (2)\r\nidentify key science questions raised by observations and theoretical studies of Antarctic surface\r\nhydrology, and (3) move the community toward answering these questions by bringing together scientists\r\nwith diverse expertise. The workshop was motivated by the premise that significant gains in our\r\nunderstanding can be made if researchers with interests in this field are provided with an opportunity to\r\ncommunicate and develop collaborations across disciplines.\r\n\r\nHere we report on the organisation, attendance, and structure of the workshop, before summarizing key\r\nscience outcomes, research questions, and future priorities that emerged during the workshop within the\r\nfollowing four themes:\r\n1. Surface melting: controls and observations\r\n2. Water ponding and flow\r\n3. Impact of meltwater on ice-shelf stability\r\n4. Ice-sheet/climate modeling\r\n\r\nFinally, building on the emergent science questions, we propose a framework for prioritizing future work,\r\naimed at understanding and predicting the impact that surface meltwater will have on future Antarctic Ice\r\nSheet mass balance.", "east": null, "geometry": null, "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Hydrology; Ice Sheet Stability; Ice Shelf; Report; Workshop", "locations": "Antarctica", "north": null, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Kingslake, Jonathan; Trusel, Luke; Banwell, Alison; Bell, Robin; Das, Indrani; DeConto, Robert; Tedesco, Marco; Lenaerts, Jan; Schoof, Christian", "project_titles": "Workshop on Antarctic Surface Hydrology and Future Ice-shelf Stability", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010021", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Workshop on Antarctic Surface Hydrology and Future Ice-shelf Stability"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": null, "title": "Report on Antarctic surface hydrology workshop, LDEO, 2018", "uid": "601170", "west": null}, {"awards": "1443394 Pollard, David", "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": "Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The dataset consists of two tar files for two distinct sets of simulations. Each tar file contains a number of Netcdf files with model output for one simulation each, and also contains a DIF file (Directory Interchange Format, in xml form) with information on that part of the dataset.\r\n\r\nSet 1:\r\n\r\nThere are 4 Netcdf files with output from the PSU 3D Antarctic ice sheet model including \r\n ice melange, showing role of melange in potentially providing buttressing and \r\n possibly slowing down ice retreat in strong climate warming scenarios.\r\n \r\nSet two:\r\n\r\nThere are 2 Netcdf files with output from the PSU 3D Antarctic ice sheet model, for two future warming scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, contributing to oceanic meltwater discharge fields for future climate and ocean model simulations performed at Univ. Massachusetts by other PIs on the NSF project.\r\n \r\nMore details on file names and model fields is provided in \"Data Section\" of the Readme file.", "east": 180.0, "geometry": ["POINT(0 -89.999)"], "keywords": "Antarctic; Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Sheet; Ice Sheet Model; Meltwater; Model Data; Modeling; Model Output", "locations": "Antarctic; Antarctica", "north": -60.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Integrated System Science", "persons": "Pollard, David", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Assessing the Global Climate Response to Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010007", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Assessing the Global Climate Response to Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "Antarctic Ice Sheet simulations for role of freshwater in future warming scenarios", "uid": "601154", "west": -180.0}, {"awards": "1443306 Mayewski, Paul; 1443263 Higgins, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((159.35343 -76.73165,159.360199 -76.73165,159.366968 -76.73165,159.373737 -76.73165,159.380506 -76.73165,159.387275 -76.73165,159.394044 -76.73165,159.400813 -76.73165,159.407582 -76.73165,159.414351 -76.73165,159.42112 -76.73165,159.42112 -76.731833,159.42112 -76.732016,159.42112 -76.732199,159.42112 -76.732382,159.42112 -76.732565,159.42112 -76.732748,159.42112 -76.732931,159.42112 -76.733114,159.42112 -76.733297,159.42112 -76.73348,159.414351 -76.73348,159.407582 -76.73348,159.400813 -76.73348,159.394044 -76.73348,159.387275 -76.73348,159.380506 -76.73348,159.373737 -76.73348,159.366968 -76.73348,159.360199 -76.73348,159.35343 -76.73348,159.35343 -76.733297,159.35343 -76.733114,159.35343 -76.732931,159.35343 -76.732748,159.35343 -76.732565,159.35343 -76.732382,159.35343 -76.732199,159.35343 -76.732016,159.35343 -76.731833,159.35343 -76.73165))"], "date_created": "Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Stable water isotope data for the surface ice samples (listed as point numbers \u00ad coordinates provided) collected at the Allan Hills Blue ice area have been generated under a collaborative effort by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute (NSF Award#1443306) and Princeton University (NSF Award# 1443263). 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This data set contains \r\nstable isotope data (dD, d18O) of meltwater samples collected from the ice core AH-1502 (76.73286 S, 159.35507 E) was drilled in 2015-16 field season to 197 meters below the surface.", "east": 159.35507, "geometry": ["POINT(159.35507 -76.73286)"], "keywords": "Allan Hills; Allan Hills Project; Antarctica; Blue Ice; Delta 18O; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core; Ice Core Chemistry; Ice Core Records; Isotope Data; Oxygen; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; Stable Water Isotopes; Transantarctic Mountains", "locations": "Antarctica; Transantarctic Mountains; Allan Hills", "north": -76.73286, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Kurbatov, Andrei V.; Mayewski, Paul A.; Introne, Douglas; Yan, Yuzhen", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Window into the World with 40,000-year Glacial Cycles from Climate Records in Million Year-old Ice from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000760", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Window into the World with 40,000-year Glacial Cycles from Climate Records in Million Year-old Ice from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Allan Hills", "south": -76.73286, "title": "Stable water isotope data for the AH-1502 ice core drilled at the Allan Hills Blue ice area", "uid": "601129", "west": 159.35507}, {"awards": "1443306 Mayewski, Paul; 1443263 Higgins, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(159.3562 -76.73243)"], "date_created": "Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Stable water isotope data for the AH-1503 ice core drilled at the Allan Hills\r Blue ice area have been generated under a collaborative effort by the\r University of Maine Climate Change Institute (NSF Award#1443263) and\r Princeton University (NSF Award# 1443263). This data set contains stable isotope data (dD, d18O) of meltwater samples collected from the\r ice core AH-1503 (76.73243 S,\u00a0159.3562 E). Ice core site AH-1503 used the same borehole as AH- BIT58 drilled down to 124 m during the 2011-12 field season. 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Snow melt has a much reduced albedo, leading to additional seasonal melting from warming insolation. Water run-off not only contributes to the mass loss of ice sheets directly, but meltwater reaching the glacial ice bed may lubricate faster flow of ice sheets towards the ocean. Surficial meltwater may also reach the grounding lines of glacial ice through the wedging open of existing crevasses. The occurrence and amount of meltwater refreeze has even been suggested as a paleo proxy of near-surface atmospheric temperature regimes.\nUsing contemporary remote sensing (microwave) satellite assessment of surface melt occurrence and extent, the predictive skill of regional meteorological models and reanalyses (e.g. WRF, ERA-Interim) to describe the synoptic conditions favourable to surficial melt is to be investigated. Statistical approaches and pattern recognition techniques are argued to provide a context for projecting future ice sheet change.\nThe previous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4) commented on our lack of understanding of ice-sheet mass balance processes in polar regions and the potential for sea-level change. The IPPC suggested that the forthcoming AR5 efforts highlight regional cryosphere modeling efforts, such as is proposed here.", "east": 180.0, "geometry": ["POINT(0 -89.999)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; Climate Model; Meteorology; Surface Melt", "locations": "Antarctica", "north": -47.0, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Reusch, David", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Decoding \u0026 Predicting Antarctic Surface Melt Dynamics with Observations, Regional Atmospheric Modeling and GCMs", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000447", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Decoding \u0026 Predicting Antarctic Surface Melt Dynamics with Observations, Regional Atmospheric Modeling and GCMs"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "Decoding \u0026 Predicting Antarctic Surface Melt Dynamics with Observations, Regional Atmospheric Modeling and GCMs", "uid": "600166", "west": -180.0}, {"awards": "1043485 Curtice, Josh", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((163.4 -77.47989,163.9848 -77.47989,164.5696 -77.47989,165.1544 -77.47989,165.7392 -77.47989,166.324 -77.47989,166.9088 -77.47989,167.4936 -77.47989,168.0784 -77.47989,168.6632 -77.47989,169.248 -77.47989,169.248 -77.565701,169.248 -77.651512,169.248 -77.737323,169.248 -77.823134,169.248 -77.908945,169.248 -77.994756,169.248 -78.080567,169.248 -78.166378,169.248 -78.252189,169.248 -78.338,168.6632 -78.338,168.0784 -78.338,167.4936 -78.338,166.9088 -78.338,166.324 -78.338,165.7392 -78.338,165.1544 -78.338,164.5696 -78.338,163.9848 -78.338,163.4 -78.338,163.4 -78.252189,163.4 -78.166378,163.4 -78.080567,163.4 -77.994756,163.4 -77.908945,163.4 -77.823134,163.4 -77.737323,163.4 -77.651512,163.4 -77.565701,163.4 -77.47989))"], "date_created": "Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This award supports a project to develop a better understanding of the response of the WAIS to climate change. The timing of the last deglaciation of the western Ross Sea will be improved using in situ terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (3He, 10Be, 14C, 26Al, 36Cl) to date glacial erratics at key areas and elevations along the western Ross Sea coast. A state-of-the art ice sheet-shelf model will be used to identify mechanisms of deglaciation of the Ross Sea sector of WAIS. The model results and forcing will be compared with observations including the new cosmogenic data proposed here, with the aim of better determining and understanding the history and causes of WAIS deglaciation in the Ross Sea. There is considerable uncertainty, however, in the history of grounding line retreat from its last glacial maximum position, and virtually nothing is known about the timing of ice- surface lowering prior to ~10,000 years ago. Given these uncertainties, we are currently unable to assess one of the most important questions regarding the last deglaciation of the global ice sheets, namely as to whether the Ross Sea sector of WAIS contributed significantly to meltwater pulse 1A (MWP-1A), an extraordinarily rapid (~500-year duration) episode of ~20 m sea-level rise that occurred ~14,500 years ago. The intellectual merit of this project is that recent observations of startling changes at the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets indicate that dynamic responses to warming may play a much greater role in the future mass balance of ice sheets than considered in current numerical projections of sea level rise. The broader impacts of this work are that it has direct societal relevance to developing an improved understanding of the response of the West Antarctic ice sheet to current and possible future environmental changes including the sea-level response to glacier and ice sheet melting due to global warming. The PI will communicate results from this project to a variety of audiences through the publication of peer-reviewed papers and by giving talks to public audiences. Finally the project will support a graduate student and undergraduate students in all phases of field-work, laboratory work and data interpretation.\n", "east": 169.248, "geometry": ["POINT(166.324 -77.908945)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Cosmogenic Dating; Ross Sea; Sample/collection Description; Sample/Collection Description; Southern Ocean; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Ross Sea", "north": -77.47989, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Kurz, Mark D.; Curtice, Josh", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000194", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -78.338, "title": "A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea", "uid": "600123", "west": 163.4}, {"awards": "0944248 MacAyeal, Douglas", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-63 -63,-62.2 -63,-61.4 -63,-60.6 -63,-59.8 -63,-59 -63,-58.2 -63,-57.4 -63,-56.6 -63,-55.8 -63,-55 -63,-55 -63.4,-55 -63.8,-55 -64.2,-55 -64.6,-55 -65,-55 -65.4,-55 -65.8,-55 -66.2,-55 -66.6,-55 -67,-55.8 -67,-56.6 -67,-57.4 -67,-58.2 -67,-59 -67,-59.8 -67,-60.6 -67,-61.4 -67,-62.2 -67,-63 -67,-63 -66.6,-63 -66.2,-63 -65.8,-63 -65.4,-63 -65,-63 -64.6,-63 -64.2,-63 -63.8,-63 -63.4,-63 -63))"], "date_created": "Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set addresses why surface melt water lakes on ice shelves and ice sheets are notably influential in triggering ice-shelf break-up and modulating seasonal ice flow, and are thus principle avenues by which environmental change can be transmitted to the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland. A comparative analysis is performed of lake geometry and derived depth (using Landsat image reflectance) in two distinct regions, one a collapsing ice shelf and the other an ablation zone of a land terminating ice sheet, to better characterize the range of surface lake variability.", "east": -55.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-59 -65)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Antarctic Peninsula; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Shelf; Larsen B Ice Shelf; Sample/collection Description; Sample/Collection Description; Supraglacial Meltwater", "locations": "Antarctica; Larsen B Ice Shelf; Antarctic Peninsula", "north": -63.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "MacAyeal, Douglas", "project_titles": "Model Studies of Surface Water Behavior on Ice Shelves", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000052", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Model Studies of Surface Water Behavior on Ice Shelves"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -67.0, "title": "Standing Water Depth on Larsen B Ice Shelf", "uid": "609584", "west": -63.0}, {"awards": "0739648 Cary, Stephen", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(163 -77.5)"], "date_created": "Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The glacial streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys have extensive cyanobacterial mats that are a probable source of fixed C and N to the Valleys. The research will examine the interplay between the microbial mats in the ephemeral glacial streams and the microbiota of the hyporheic soils (wetted soil zone) underlying and adjacent to those mats. It is hypothesized that the mats are important sources of organic carbon and fixed nitrogen for the soil communities of the hyporheic zone, and release dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) that serves the entire Dry Valley ecosystem. Field efforts will entail both observational and experimental components. Direct comparisons will be made between the mats and microbial populations underlying naturally rehydrated and desiccated mat areas, and between mat areas in the melt streams of the Adams and Miers Glaciers in Miers Valley. Both physiological and phylogenetic indices of the soil microbiota will be examined. Observations will include estimates of rates of mat carbon and nitrogen fixation, soil respiration and leucine and thymidine uptake (as measures of protein \u0026 DNA synthesis, respectively) by soil bacteria, bacterial densities and their molecular ecology. Experimental manipulations will include experimental re-wetting of soils and observations of the time course of response of the microbial community. The research will integrate modern molecular genetic approaches (ARISA-DNA fingerprinting and ultra deep 16S rDNA microbial phylogenetic analysis) with geochemistry to study the diversity, ecology, and function of microbial communities that thrive in these extreme environments. The broader impacts of the project include research and educational opportunities for graduate students and a postdoctoral associate. The P.I.s will involve undergraduates as work-study students and in REU programs, and will participate in educational and outreach programs.", "east": 163.0, "geometry": ["POINT(163 -77.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Biota; Cell Counts; Dry Valleys; Microbiology", "locations": "Antarctica; Dry Valleys", "north": -77.5, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Cary, S. Craig", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Biogeochemistry of Cyanobactrial Mats and Hyporheic Zone Microbes in McMurdo Dry Valley Glacial Meltwater Streams", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000476", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Biogeochemistry of Cyanobactrial Mats and Hyporheic Zone Microbes in McMurdo Dry Valley Glacial Meltwater Streams"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -77.5, "title": "Biogeochemistry of Cyanobactrial Mats and Hyporheic Zone Microbes in McMurdo Dry Valley Glacial Meltwater Streams", "uid": "600079", "west": 163.0}, {"awards": "0636740 Kreutz, Karl", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(112.088333 -79.482778)", "POINT(-112.088333 -79.482778)"], "date_created": "Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes microparticle concentration, electrical conductivity, and density measurements from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide deep ice core, WDC06A. Microparticle concentration data are reported as total particles per ml of meltwater. Concentration was measured using a laser detector and the University of Maine WAIS Melt Monitor system. Conductivity is measured in micro-Siemens per cm (uS/cm). Density data were collected on 3 by 3 by 100 cm sticks from the WDC06A core, using the Maine Automated Density Gauge Experiment (MADGE). Density data span 0 to 160 m in depth, while the particle and conductivity measurements span the upper 577 m of the core. \n\nData are available via FTP in ASCII text format (.txt).", "east": 112.088333, "geometry": ["POINT(112.088333 -79.482778)", "POINT(-112.088333 -79.482778)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Density; Electrical Conductivity; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Ice Core Records; Microparticle Concentration; Physical Properties; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "Antarctica; WAIS Divide", "north": -79.482778, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Kreutz, Karl; Hamilton, Gordon S.; Breton, Daniel; Koffman, Bess", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Microparticle/tephra analysis of the WAIS Divide ice core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000040", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Microparticle/tephra analysis of the WAIS Divide ice core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.482778, "title": "Microparticle, Conductivity, and Density Measurements from the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core, Antarctica", "uid": "609499", "west": -112.088333}]

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