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Here, we take a different approach of carefully synthesizing different data sets to infer changes in the configurations of van der Veen and Mercer Ice Streams on the Siple Coast over the past 3000 years from englacial features encoded in ice-penetrating radar data. Englacial radar data from Conway Ridge reveal smooth, surface conformal layers overlying disrupted stratigraphy that suggest the van der Veen Ice Stream was 40 km wider over 3000 years ago. Englacial layer dating indicates that the ice stream narrowed to its present configuration between $\\sim3000$ and $\\sim1000$ years ago. Similarly disrupted stratigraphy and buried crevasses suggest that ice flowing from Mercer to Whillans Ice Stream across the northwestern tip of the ridge slowed shortly after. Using an ice-flow model capable of simulating shear margin migration, we evaluate whether small changes in ice thickness can lead to large changes in shear margin location. Our results suggest that the tip of Conway Ridge is sensitive to thinning and thickening, and that when the basal strength at the tip of the ridge increases with the height above flotation, the ice sheet shear margins can change quickly.", "east": -130.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-140 -84.25)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Cryosphere; Siple Coast", "locations": "Siple Coast; Antarctica", "north": -83.5, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Hoffman, Andrew; Conway, Howard; Christianson, Knut", "project_titles": "Glacial History of Ridge AB, West Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010470", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Glacial History of Ridge AB, West Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -85.0, "title": "Impulse HF radar data from Conway Ridge", "uid": "601810", "west": -150.0}, {"awards": "0941678 ; 0424589 Gogineni, S. Prasad; 0733025 Blankenship, Donald; 1443690 Young, Duncan", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((114 -74,115.2 -74,116.4 -74,117.6 -74,118.8 -74,120 -74,121.2 -74,122.4 -74,123.6 -74,124.8 -74,126 -74,126 -74.3,126 -74.6,126 -74.9,126 -75.2,126 -75.5,126 -75.8,126 -76.1,126 -76.4,126 -76.7,126 -77,124.8 -77,123.6 -77,122.4 -77,121.2 -77,120 -77,118.8 -77,117.6 -77,116.4 -77,115.2 -77,114 -77,114 -76.7,114 -76.4,114 -76.1,114 -75.8,114 -75.5,114 -75.2,114 -74.9,114 -74.6,114 -74.3,114 -74))"], "date_created": "Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The data set published here consists of 26 ice-penetrating radar IRHs (internal reflecting horizons) which were traced across multiple ice-penetrating radar surveys that deployed several generations of modern ice-penetrating radar sounders over a decade, between 2008 and 2018, over the Dome C region of the East Antarctic Plateau. The data set is associated to publication: Cavitte, M. G. P, Young, D. A, Mulvaney, R., Ritz, C., Greenbaum, J. S., Ng, G., Kempf, S. D., Quartini, E., Muldoon, G. R., Paden, J., Frezzotti, M., Roberts, J. L. , Tozer, C. R. , Schroeder, D. M. and Blankenship, D. D. A detailed radiostratigraphic data set for the central East Antarctic Plateau spanning from the Holocene to the mid-Pleistocene, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4759\u20134777, 2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4759-2021.\r\n\r\nWe can subdivide the radar sounders used into three sets. The primary set was collected by the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) as part of the ICECAP project) between 2008 and 2015. This includes the Oldest Ice candidate A (OIA) survey flown by ICECAP in January 2016. Data were collected with the High Capacity Airborne Radar Sounder (HiCARS) 1 \u0026 2 and its Multifrequency Airborne Radar-sounder for Full-phase Assessment (MARFA) descendant. The data was collected from a DC-3T Basler which operated from Concordia Station. \r\n\r\nThe second set consists of the Vostok-Dome C airborne radar transect was flown by the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas using the Multi-Channel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) in a single flight line in 2013. A P-3 Orion operating from McMurdo Station collected these data as part of NASA Operation Ice Bridge. \r\n\r\nThe third set consists of a subset of the LDC ground-based radar survey, towed behind a PistenBully PB300 tractor, collected by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice (BE-OI) European Consortium using the British Antarctic Survey\u2019s (BAS) Deep Looking Radio Echo Sounder (DELORES) radar system. Each IRH has been traced in all three radar sets and is published here as a single csv and netcdf file. Formats are self-documented in these csv/netcdf files. \r\n\r\nWhere HiCARS and MCoRDS radar transects are used, the IRH is provided at a 1 km spatial resolution, where DELORES radar transects are used, the IRH is provided at a 250 m spatial resolution. \r\n\r\nThe 26 IRHs published here were traced semi-automatically by first author Marie Cavitte, using Landmark\u0027s Decision Space Desktop software and its built-in picker. \r\n\r\nThe IRHs are dated at the EDC ice core using the AICC2012 timescale (Veres et al., 2013; Bazin et al., 2013). \r\n\r\nIce core ages are transferred onto the IRHs on radar transect MCM/JKB1a/EDMC01a at distance_m (column in the data sets) = 110.153 m along the transect. That radar point of closest approach is 94\u2009m away from the ice core site. Depth and age uncertainties associated to each IRH are quantified n the associated publication: Cavitte, M. G. P, Young, D. A, Mulvaney, R., Ritz, C., Greenbaum, J. S., Ng, G., Kempf, S. D., Quartini, E., Muldoon, G. R., Paden, J., Frezzotti, M., Roberts, J. L. , Tozer, C. R. , Schroeder, D. M. and Blankenship, D. D. A detailed radiostratigraphic data set for the central East Antarctic Plateau spanning from the Holocene to the mid-Pleistocene, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4759\u20134777, 2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4759-2021. \r\n\n\r\n\r\nBesides NSF this dataset is the result of additional support from NERC grant - NE/D003733/1, NASA grants - NX08AN68G, NNX09AR52G, NNX11AD33G, NNX13AD53A, and funding from the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation.\n\n\\nNote that the dataset was archived before the accompanying paper was officially published. The abstract and dataset description has been updated to cite the correct reference to the ESSD paper (Cavitte et al., 2021) after the paper was published. The headers of the actual data files contain only a placeholder to this reference.", "east": 126.0, "geometry": ["POINT(120 -75.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; East Antarctic Plateau; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; ICECAP; Ice Penetrating Radar; Internal Reflecting Horizons", "locations": "East Antarctic Plateau; Antarctica", "north": -74.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Earth Sciences; Antarctic Earth Sciences", "persons": "Cavitte, Marie G. P; Young, Duncan A.; Mulvaney, Robert; Ritz, Catherine; Greenbaum, Jamin; Ng, Gregory; Kempf, Scott D.; Quartini, Enrica; Muldoon, Gail R.; Paden, John; Frezzotti, Massimo; Roberts, Jason; Tozer, Carly; Schroeder, Dustin; Blankenship, Donald D.", "project_titles": "Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS); Collaborative Research: Southern Plateau Ice-sheet Characterization and Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (SPICECAP); IPY Research: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP)", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000719", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "IPY Research: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP)"}, {"proj_uid": "p0000102", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)"}, {"proj_uid": "p0010115", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Southern Plateau Ice-sheet Characterization and Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (SPICECAP)"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Dome C Ice Core", "south": -77.0, "title": "Ice-penetrating radar internal stratigraphy over Dome C and the wider East Antarctic Plateau", "uid": "601411", "west": 114.0}, {"awards": "1745116 Scambos, Ted", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-72 -70.75,-71.95 -70.75,-71.9 -70.75,-71.85 -70.75,-71.8 -70.75,-71.75 -70.75,-71.7 -70.75,-71.65 -70.75,-71.6 -70.75,-71.55 -70.75,-71.5 -70.75,-71.5 -70.775,-71.5 -70.8,-71.5 -70.825,-71.5 -70.85,-71.5 -70.875,-71.5 -70.9,-71.5 -70.925,-71.5 -70.95,-71.5 -70.975,-71.5 -71,-71.55 -71,-71.6 -71,-71.65 -71,-71.7 -71,-71.75 -71,-71.8 -71,-71.85 -71,-71.9 -71,-71.95 -71,-72 -71,-72 -70.975,-72 -70.95,-72 -70.925,-72 -70.9,-72 -70.875,-72 -70.85,-72 -70.825,-72 -70.8,-72 -70.775,-72 -70.75))"], "date_created": "Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset compiles a suite of glaciology (density, stratigraphy), hydrology (slug and dilution tests) and geophysical measurements (GPS, GPR, ApRES) to characterize a firn aquifer observed within the Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica.", "east": -71.5, "geometry": ["POINT(-71.75 -70.875)"], "keywords": "Airborne Radar; Antarctica; Antarctic Peninsula; Firn; Firn Aquifer; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; GPR; Hydrology; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; Wilkins Ice Shelf", "locations": "Wilkins Ice Shelf; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarctica; Antarctic Peninsula", "north": -70.75, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Mi\u00e8ge, Cl\u00e9ment; Montgomery, Lynn; Miller, Julie; Scambos, Ted; Wallin, Bruce; Miller, Olivia; Solomon, Kip; Forster, Richard; Koenig, Lora", "project_titles": "Antarctic Firn Aquifers: Extent, Characteristics, and Comparison with Greenland Occurrences", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010126", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Antarctic Firn Aquifers: Extent, Characteristics, and Comparison with Greenland Occurrences"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -71.0, "title": "Density, hydrology and geophysical measurements from the Wilkins Ice Shelf firn aquifer", "uid": "601390", "west": -72.0}, {"awards": "1804154 Sowers, Todd; 1443464 Sowers, Todd; 1141839 Steig, Eric; 1443105 Steig, Eric; 1443710 Severinghaus, Jeffrey; 1443397 Kreutz, Karl; 1142517 Aydin, Murat; 1443470 Aydin, Murat; 1643394 Buizert, Christo; 1443472 Brook, Edward J.", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(99.16 -89.99)"], "date_created": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "We present the SP19 gas chronology for the South Pole ice core. The chronology is based on stratigraphic matching of abrupt methane (CH4) changes. To construct the chronology, abrupt changes in CH4 during the glacial period and small, 20-30ppb, centennial scale changes in CH4 were used with analogous data from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice core. Stratigraphic matching was verified by an optimization algorithm. The ages cover the last 52,586 years. Absolute uncertainty increases with depth until \u00b1 540 years. ", "east": 99.16, "geometry": ["POINT(99.16 -89.99)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Ch4; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Ice Core Stratigraphy; Methane; South Pole; SPICEcore", "locations": "Antarctica; South Pole; Antarctica", "north": -89.99, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Epifanio, Jenna", "project_titles": "Carbonyl Sulfide, Methyl Chloride, and Methyl Bromide Measurements in the New Intermediate-depth South Pole Ice Core; Collaborative Research: A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole; Collaborative Research: Inert Gas and Methane Based Climate Records throughout the South Pole Deep Ice Core; Collaborative Research: Record of the Triple-oxygen Isotope and Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Ice from an Ice Core at South Pole", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010065", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Record of the Triple-oxygen Isotope and Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Ice from an Ice Core at South Pole"}, {"proj_uid": "p0010060", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole"}, {"proj_uid": "p0010005", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Inert Gas and Methane Based Climate Records throughout the South Pole Deep Ice Core"}, {"proj_uid": "p0010089", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Carbonyl Sulfide, Methyl Chloride, and Methyl Bromide Measurements in the New Intermediate-depth South Pole Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "SPICEcore", "south": -89.99, "title": "SP19 Gas Chronology", "uid": "601380", "west": 99.16}, {"awards": "1443471 Koutnik, Michelle", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-180 -89,-166.5 -89,-153 -89,-139.5 -89,-126 -89,-112.5 -89,-99 -89,-85.5 -89,-72 -89,-58.5 -89,-45 -89,-45 -89.1,-45 -89.2,-45 -89.3,-45 -89.4,-45 -89.5,-45 -89.6,-45 -89.7,-45 -89.8,-45 -89.9,-45 -90,-58.5 -90,-72 -90,-85.5 -90,-99 -90,-112.5 -90,-126 -90,-139.5 -90,-153 -90,-166.5 -90,180 -90,173 -90,166 -90,159 -90,152 -90,145 -90,138 -90,131 -90,124 -90,117 -90,110 -90,110 -89.9,110 -89.8,110 -89.7,110 -89.6,110 -89.5,110 -89.4,110 -89.3,110 -89.2,110 -89.1,110 -89,117 -89,124 -89,131 -89,138 -89,145 -89,152 -89,159 -89,166 -89,173 -89,-180 -89))"], "date_created": "Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains ice-penetrating radar measurements of surface topography, ice thickness, internal stratigraphy, and derived bed topography in the vicinity of South Pole.", "east": -45.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-147.5 -89.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Ice Sheet", "locations": "Antarctica; Antarctica", "north": -89.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Waddington, Edwin D.; Conway, Howard; Koutnik, Michelle; Fudge, T. J.; Lilien, David; Stevens, Max", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Characterization of Upstream Ice and Firn Dynamics affecting the South Pole Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000200", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Characterization of Upstream Ice and Firn Dynamics affecting the South Pole Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "SPICEcore", "south": -90.0, "title": "7MHz radar in the vicinity of South Pole", "uid": "601369", "west": 110.0}, {"awards": "9911617 Blankenship, Donald; 9978236 Bell, Robin", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((101.5 -75.5,102.15 -75.5,102.8 -75.5,103.45 -75.5,104.1 -75.5,104.75 -75.5,105.4 -75.5,106.05 -75.5,106.7 -75.5,107.35 -75.5,108 -75.5,108 -75.85,108 -76.2,108 -76.55,108 -76.9,108 -77.25,108 -77.6,108 -77.95,108 -78.3,108 -78.65,108 -79,107.35 -79,106.7 -79,106.05 -79,105.4 -79,104.75 -79,104.1 -79,103.45 -79,102.8 -79,102.15 -79,101.5 -79,101.5 -78.65,101.5 -78.3,101.5 -77.95,101.5 -77.6,101.5 -77.25,101.5 -76.9,101.5 -76.55,101.5 -76.2,101.5 -75.85,101.5 -75.5))"], "date_created": "Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Processed IcePenetrating Radar Altimeter Data acquired during the SOAR Twin Otter expedition SOAR-LVS (2000)\r\nThis data set was acquired with a IcePenetrating Radar Altimeter during SOAR Twin Otter expedition SOAR-LVS conducted in 2000 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Robin Bell; Investigator(s): Dr. Robin Bell and Dr. Michael Studinger). These data files are of ASCII format and include Ice LayerThickness data and were processed after data collection. Data were acquired as part of the project(s): SOAR-Lake Vostok Survey (LVS) and Understanding the Boundary Conditions of the Lake Vostok Environment: A Site Survey for Future Work", "east": 108.0, "geometry": ["POINT(104.75 -77.25)"], "keywords": "Airborne Laser Altimeters; Airborne Radar; Airplane; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice; Ice Sheet; Ice Stratigraphy; Ice Thickness; Ice Thickness Distribution; Lake Vostok; Radar; Radar Altimetry; Radar Echo Sounder; SOAR; Subglacial Lake", "locations": "Antarctica; Lake Vostok; East Antarctica", "north": -75.5, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Earth Sciences; Antarctic Earth Sciences", "persons": "Studinger, Michael S.; Bell, Robin", "project_titles": "Continuation of Activities for the Support Office for Aerogeophysical Research (SOAR); Understanding the Boundary Conditions of the Lake Vostok Environment: A Site Survey for Future Work\r\n", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000125", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Continuation of Activities for the Support Office for Aerogeophysical Research (SOAR)"}, {"proj_uid": "p0010097", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Understanding the Boundary Conditions of the Lake Vostok Environment: A Site Survey for Future Work\r\n"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -79.0, "title": "SOAR-Lake Vostok Survey ice thickness data", "uid": "601297", "west": 101.5}, {"awards": "1043700 Harry, Dennis", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-180 -70,-176.5 -70,-173 -70,-169.5 -70,-166 -70,-162.5 -70,-159 -70,-155.5 -70,-152 -70,-148.5 -70,-145 -70,-145 -71,-145 -72,-145 -73,-145 -74,-145 -75,-145 -76,-145 -77,-145 -78,-145 -79,-145 -80,-148.5 -80,-152 -80,-155.5 -80,-159 -80,-162.5 -80,-166 -80,-169.5 -80,-173 -80,-176.5 -80,180 -80,177.5 -80,175 -80,172.5 -80,170 -80,167.5 -80,165 -80,162.5 -80,160 -80,157.5 -80,155 -80,155 -79,155 -78,155 -77,155 -76,155 -75,155 -74,155 -73,155 -72,155 -71,155 -70,157.5 -70,160 -70,162.5 -70,165 -70,167.5 -70,170 -70,172.5 -70,175 -70,177.5 -70,-180 -70))"], "date_created": "Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Interpretation of major post-middle Miocene seismic reflections in the Ross Sea are provided in i) ASCII files containing Line, Trace, X, Y, and TWTT (two-way travel) picks and ii) netcdf grid files of structure and isochore maps in two-way travel time and depth or thickness. Data are in the Antarctic Polar Stereographic projection.", "east": -145.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-175 -75)"], "keywords": "Andrill; Antarctica; Marine Geoscience; Ross Sea; Seismic Interpretation; Seismic Reflection; Stratigraphy; Subsidence; Victoria Land Basin", "locations": "Victoria Land Basin; Antarctica; Ross Sea", "north": -70.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Earth Sciences", "persons": "Harry, Dennis L.", "project_titles": "Geodynamic Models of Subsidence and Lithospheric Flexure at the ANDRILL Drill Sites: Implications for Cenozoic Tectonics and Ice Sheet History", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000467", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Geodynamic Models of Subsidence and Lithospheric Flexure at the ANDRILL Drill Sites: Implications for Cenozoic Tectonics and Ice Sheet History"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "ANDRILL", "south": -80.0, "title": "Ross Sea post-middle Miocene seismic interpretation", "uid": "601227", "west": 155.0}, {"awards": "1443566 Bay, Ryan", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(0 -90)"], "date_created": "Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "We deployed an oriented laser dust logger in the SPICEcore borehole in order to study the particulate stratigraphy, volcanology, glaciology and climatology of South Pole. We obtained a detailed record of dust and ash, SPICEcore age versus depth, and measurements of the optical anisotropy indicated by IceCube analyses.", "east": 0.0, "geometry": ["POINT(0 -90)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Dust; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice; Ice Core Data; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; SPICEcore", "locations": "Antarctica; Antarctica", "north": -90.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Bay, Ryan", "project_titles": "Laser Dust Logging of a South Pole Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010061", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Laser Dust Logging of a South Pole Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "SPICEcore", "south": -90.0, "title": "Laser Dust Logging of the South Pole Ice Core (SPICE)", "uid": "601222", "west": 0.0}, {"awards": "1443336 Osterberg, Erich", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-180 -90)"], "date_created": "Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The South Pole Ice Core (SPICEcore) was drilled in 2014-2016 to provide a detailed multi-proxy archive of paleoclimate conditions in East Antarctica during the Holocene and late Pleistocene. Interpretation of these records requires an accurate depth-age relationship. Here, we present the SP19 timescale for the age of the ice of SPICEcore. SP19 is synchronized to the WD2014 chronology from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) ice core using stratigraphic matching of 251 volcanic events. These events indicate an age of 54,302 +/- 519 years BP (before the year 1950) at the bottom of SPICEcore. Annual layers identified in sodium and magnesium ions to 11,341 BP were used to interpolate between stratigraphic volcanic tie points, yielding an annually-resolved chronology through the Holocene. Estimated timescale uncertainty during the Holocene is less than 18 years relative to WD2014, with the exception of the interval between 1800 to 3100 BP when uncertainty estimates reach +/- 25 years due to widely spaced volcanic tie points. Prior to the Holocene, uncertainties remain within 124 years relative to WD2014. Results show an average Holocene accumulation rate of 7.4 cm/yr (water equivalent). The time variability of accumulation rate is consistent with expectations for steady-state ice flow through the modern spatial pattern of accumulation rate. Time variations in nitrate concentration, nitrate seasonal amplitude, and \u03b415N of N2 in turn are as expected for the accumulation-rate variations. The highly variable yet well-constrained Holocene accumulation history at the site can help improve scientific understanding of deposition-sensitive climate proxies such as \u03b415N of N2 and photolyzed chemical compounds.", "east": -180.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-180 -90)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Calcium (ca); Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Depth; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciochemistry; Glaciology; Ice; Ice Core; Ice Core Chemistry; Ice Core Data; Ice Core Records; Ice Core Stratigraphy; Nitrate; Nitrogen Isotopes; Paleoclimate; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; South Pole; SPICEcore", "locations": "South Pole; Antarctica", "north": -90.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Winski, Dominic A.; Fudge, T. 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The filenames include the name of the horizon\n\t(unconformity) and whether they are in time or depth. \\\"etc.\\\" means there are\n\ttwo or more horizons that have been merged. Most of the horizons are named and\n\tdefined in the ANTOSTRAT (1995) atlas. The starting points for many of these\n\thorizons are ANTOSTRAT [1995] near DSDP sites 273, 272, and 270. In other areas\n\twe deviate from the interpretation of ANTOSTRAT [1995]. late Oligocene through\n\tmiddle Miocene horizons, interpreted very close to the ANTOSTRAT [1995] at DSDP\n\tSite 273 in Central Trough, are much deeper in our interpretation within Terror\n\tRift. These horizon grids usually include the sea floor where there is outcrop\n\tor acoustic basement (top syn-rift in some basins) where there is onlap. \n\n\n\tANTOSTRAT (1995), Seismic Stratigraphic Atlas of the Ross Sea, in Geology and\n\tSeismic Stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin, edited by A. K. Cooper, Barker,\n\tP. 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Also included are picks of ice thickness and surface elevation. \u003cbr\u003e GPS data include positions of 142 poles set in 2010 and resurveyed in 2012. Also given are velocity vectors for the poles. 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A record of carbon-14 of atmospheric methane (14CH4) will be obtained for the last deglaciation and the Early Holocene, together with a supporting record of CH4 stable isotopes. In-situ cosmogenic 14C content and partitioning of 14C between different species (14CH4, C-14 carbon monoxide (14CO) and C-14 carbon dioxide (14CO2)) will be determined with unprecedented precision in ice from the surface down to ~67 m. Further age-mapping of the ablating ice stratigraphy will take place using a combination of CH4, CO2, and delta 18O of oxygen gas and H2O stable isotopes. High precision, high-resolution records of CO2, delta 13C of CO2, nitrous oxide (N2O) and N2O isotopes will be obtained for the last deglaciation and intervals during the last glacial period. The potential of 14CO2 and Krypton-81 (81Kr) as absolute dating tools for glacial ice will be investigated. The intellectual merit of proposed work includes the fact that the response of natural methane sources to continuing global warming is uncertain, and available evidence is insufficient to rule out the possibility of catastrophic releases from large 14C-depleted reservoirs such as CH4 clathrates and permafrost. The proposed paleoatmospheric 14CH4 record will improve our understanding of the possible magnitude and timing of CH4 release from these reservoirs during a large climatic warming. A thorough understanding of in-situ cosmogenic 14C in glacial ice (production rates by different mechanisms and partitioning between species) is currently lacking. Such an understanding will likely enable the use of in-situ 14CO in ice at accumulation sites as a reliable, uncomplicated tracer of the past cosmic ray flux and possibly past solar activity, as well as the use of 14CO2 at both ice accumulation and ice ablation sites as an absolute dating tool. Significant gaps remain in our understanding of the natural carbon cycle, as well as in its responses to global climate change. The proposed high-resolution, high-precision records of delta 13C of CO2 would provide new information on carbon cycle changes both during times of rising CO2 in a warming climate and falling CO2 in a cooling climate. N2O is an important greenhouse gas that increased by ~30% during the last deglaciation. The causes of this increase are still largely uncertain, and the proposed high-precision record of N2O concentration and isotopes would provide further insights into N2O source changes in a warming world. The broader impacts of proposed work include an improvement in our understanding of the response of these greenhouse gas budgets to global warming and inform societally important model projections of future climate change. The continued age-mapping of Taylor Glacier ablation ice will add value to this high-quality, easily accessible archive of natural environmental variability. Establishing 14CO as a robust new tracer for past cosmic ray flux would inform paleoclimate studies and constitute a valuable contribution to the study of the societally important issue of climate change. The proposed work will contribute to the development of new laboratory and field analytical systems. The data from the study will be made available to the scientific community and the broad public through the NSIDC and NOAA Paleoclimatology data centers. 1 graduate student each will be trained at UR, OSU and SIO, and the work will contribute to the training of a postdoc at OSU. 3 UR undergraduates will be involved in fieldwork and research. The work will support a new, junior UR faculty member, Petrenko. All PIs have a strong history of and commitment to scientific outreach in the forms of media interviews, participation in filming of field projects, as well as speaking to schools and the public about their research, and will continue these activities as part of the proposed work. 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In Antarctica, the instrumental record of climate is particularly short (~40 years except in a few isolated locations on the coast), and ice core proxy data are the only means available for extending this record into the past. The use of stable isotopes of water (18-O/16-O and D/H ratios) from ice cores as proxies for temperature is well established for both very short (i.e. seasonal) and long timescales (centuries, millennia). Using multivariate regression methods and shallow ice cores from West Antarctica, a reconstruction of Antarctic climate over the last ~150 years has been developed which suggests the continent has been warming, on average, at a rate of ~0.2 K/century. Further improving these reconstructions is the chief motivation for further extending the US ITASE project. Ten to fifteen shallow (~100 m) from Victoria Land, East Antarctica will be obtained and analyzed. The core will be collected along a traverse route beginning at Taylor Dome and ending at the South Pole. Age-depth relationships for the cores will be determined through a combination of stable isotopes, visual stratigraphy and seasonal chemical signatures and marker horizons. Reconstructions of Antarctic climate obtained from these cores will be incorporated into the global network of paleoclimate information, which has been important in science, policy and educational contexts. 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The research is a radar examination of bed reflection characteristics and internal layer geometry in two inter-ice-stream ridges, the Shabtaie Ridge (Ridge D/E) and the Engelhardt Ridge (Ridge B/C), and across margins with the adjacent ice streams, the MacAyeal Ice Stream (Ice Stream E) and the Whillans Ice Stream (Ice Stream B). Investigators collected these radar data from 14 November through 13 December 1998. \n\nData are in Microsoft Word, PDF, ASCII text, MATLAB, binary, and various image formats. Investigators have also provided code for MATLAB routines that they used to view the radar data. Data are available via FTP.", "east": -138.3697, "geometry": ["POINT(-140.02095 -81.7603)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; GPR; Radar; Siple Dome", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -80.1678, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Nereson, Nadine A.; Raymond, Charles", "project_titles": "Internal Stratigraphy and Basal Conditions at the Margins ofActive Ice Streams of the Siple Coast, Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000626", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Internal Stratigraphy and Basal Conditions at the Margins ofActive Ice Streams of the Siple Coast, Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -83.3528, "title": "Radar Investigations of Antarctic Ice Stream Margins, Siple Dome, 1998", "uid": "609303", "west": -141.6722}, {"awards": "0088035 Arcone, Steven", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-135 -75,-130.5 -75,-126 -75,-121.5 -75,-117 -75,-112.5 -75,-108 -75,-103.5 -75,-99 -75,-94.5 -75,-90 -75,-90 -76.5,-90 -78,-90 -79.5,-90 -81,-90 -82.5,-90 -84,-90 -85.5,-90 -87,-90 -88.5,-90 -90,-94.5 -90,-99 -90,-103.5 -90,-108 -90,-112.5 -90,-117 -90,-121.5 -90,-126 -90,-130.5 -90,-135 -90,-135 -88.5,-135 -87,-135 -85.5,-135 -84,-135 -82.5,-135 -81,-135 -79.5,-135 -78,-135 -76.5,-135 -75))"], "date_created": "Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes data from radar profiles that were recorded between core sites during the November-December seasons for 1999-2002. Data were collected using an ice-penetrating radar to survey the ice sheet. Ice thickness data are available for a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This study is part of the U.S. participation in the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE). Elevation data are available in Excel and Microsoft Access database format.", "east": -90.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.5 -82.5)"], "keywords": "Airborne Radar; Antarctica; Elevation; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; ITASE; Radar; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -75.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Arcone, Steven", "project_titles": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000146", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition 400 MHz Subsurface Radar Profiles", "uid": "609254", "west": -135.0}, {"awards": "9814574 Jacobel, Robert", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-120 -80,-115.6 -80,-111.2 -80,-106.8 -80,-102.4 -80,-98 -80,-93.6 -80,-89.2 -80,-84.8 -80,-80.4 -80,-76 -80,-76 -81,-76 -82,-76 -83,-76 -84,-76 -85,-76 -86,-76 -87,-76 -88,-76 -89,-76 -90,-80.4 -90,-84.8 -90,-89.2 -90,-93.6 -90,-98 -90,-102.4 -90,-106.8 -90,-111.2 -90,-115.6 -90,-120 -90,-120 -89,-120 -88,-120 -87,-120 -86,-120 -85,-120 -84,-120 -83,-120 -82,-120 -81,-120 -80))"], "date_created": "Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Ice thickness and internal layer depth data were collected with a ground-based, ice-penetrating radar study as part of the US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) traverse in West Antarctica from 01 November 2001 to 10 January 2003. Longitude, latitude, ice thickness, and depth to a prominent internal reflector were collected at approximately 12 m intervals. Ice thickness values are reported for approximately 90% of the traverse, and internal layer depth values are reported for approximately 80% of the traverse. Data are avaialble in ASCII and JPEG formats via FTP.", "east": -76.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-98 -85)"], "keywords": "Airborne Radar; Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; ITASE; WAIS", "locations": "Antarctica; WAIS", "north": -80.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Jacobel, Robert", "project_titles": "Radar Studies of Internal Stratigraphy and Bedrock Topography along the US ITASE Traverse", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000595", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Radar Studies of Internal Stratigraphy and Bedrock Topography along the US ITASE Traverse"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "ITASE", "south": -90.0, "title": "Ice Thickness and Internal Layer Depth Along the 2001 and 2002 US ITASE Traverses", "uid": "609264", "west": -120.0}, {"awards": "0229573 Mayewski, Paul; 0088035 Arcone, Steven; 0196441 Hamilton, Gordon; 0096299 Mayewski, Paul", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-123.993 -77.6832,-123.6019 -77.6832,-123.2108 -77.6832,-122.8197 -77.6832,-122.4286 -77.6832,-122.0375 -77.6832,-121.6464 -77.6832,-121.2553 -77.6832,-120.8642 -77.6832,-120.4731 -77.6832,-120.082 -77.6832,-120.082 -77.7232,-120.082 -77.7632,-120.082 -77.8032,-120.082 -77.8432,-120.082 -77.8832,-120.082 -77.9232,-120.082 -77.9632,-120.082 -78.0032,-120.082 -78.0432,-120.082 -78.0832,-120.4731 -78.0832,-120.8642 -78.0832,-121.2553 -78.0832,-121.6464 -78.0832,-122.0375 -78.0832,-122.4286 -78.0832,-122.8197 -78.0832,-123.2108 -78.0832,-123.6019 -78.0832,-123.993 -78.0832,-123.993 -78.0432,-123.993 -78.0032,-123.993 -77.9632,-123.993 -77.9232,-123.993 -77.8832,-123.993 -77.8432,-123.993 -77.8032,-123.993 -77.7632,-123.993 -77.7232,-123.993 -77.6832))"], "date_created": "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Snow accumulation rates typically show high variability over short distances. This data set contains accumulation rates derived from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) used to detect isochronal layers in the firn in West Antarctica. These layers were then dated using results from ice core analyses. These data show that accumulation rates along this profile have decreased in recent decades. The radar profile extends between two ice core sites taken along one of the US-ITASE traverse routes.", "east": -120.082, "geometry": ["POINT(-122.0375 -77.8832)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; GPR; ITASE; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -77.6832, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Spikes, Vandy Blue; Hamilton, Gordon S.; Mayewski, Paul A.; Arcone, Steven; Kaspari, Susan", "project_titles": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000146", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "ITASE", "south": -78.0832, "title": "US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE): GPR Profiles and Accumulation Mapping", "uid": "609269", "west": -123.993}, {"awards": "8613786 Mayewski, Paul; 8411018 Frisic, David", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(162.5 -77.61667)"], "date_created": "Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes beta profiles, chemistry, stratigraphy data, and density and temperature profiles collected from snow pits and two ice cores on the Newall Glacier. Snow pit and ice core data were collected between 1987 and 1989. Ice Core A was 175 meters long and core B was 150 meters long.", "east": 162.5, "geometry": ["POINT(162.5 -77.61667)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Newall Glacier; Paleoclimate; Physical Properties; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; Statigraphy", "locations": "Newall Glacier; Antarctica", "north": -77.61667, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Welch, Kathy A.; Mayewski, Paul A.", "project_titles": "Characterization of Climatic Events for the Last 2 x 103y through the Retrieval of Ice Cores from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000169", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Characterization of Climatic Events for the Last 2 x 103y through the Retrieval of Ice Cores from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -77.61667, "title": "Newall Glacier Ice Core and Snow Pit Beta Profiles, Chemistry, and Stratigraphy", "uid": "609249", "west": 162.5}, {"awards": "9527262 Gow, Anthony", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Wed, 14 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis data set includes annual layer data for Siple Dome ice cores A, B, and C, based on stratigraphy; thin-section images, and fabric data. The study included the analysis of more than 2500 crystallographic c-axes conducted on 50 thin sections from the main PICO core.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Photo/video; Photo/Video; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Gow, Tony; Meese, Deb", "project_titles": "Physical and Structural Properties of the Siple Dome Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000064", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Physical and Structural Properties of the Siple Dome Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Physical and Structural Properties of the Siple Dome Ice Cores", "uid": "609128", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "XXXXXXX Palais, Julie", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(162 -77)"], "date_created": "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Snow pit and ice core data from the Newall Glacier (location - 162 30\u0027\nEast, 77 35\u0027 South) were collected during 1987 and 1988. These include\ninformation on chemistry, Beta profiles and stratigraphy. Ice cores\nwere collected during the austral summer of 1988-1989 and contain\ninformation on chemistry, Pb- 210 profiles, density profiles and\ntemperature profiles. Core A was 175 meters long and core B was 150\nmeters long.\n\nThe snow pits were dug and sampled by the Glacier Research Group\n(GRG), using established protocols to prevent contamination. The\nsamples for major ion chemistry remained frozen until melted for\nanalysis in the GRG lab, located at the University of New Hampshire\n(UNH), and all core processing was done by GRG established protocols\nto prevent contamination. Major ions were analyzed using suppressed\nion chromatography.", "east": 162.0, "geometry": ["POINT(162 -77)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Newall Glacier; Paleoclimate; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice", "locations": "Newall Glacier; Antarctica", "north": -77.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Mayewski, Paul A.; Whitlow, Sallie", "project_titles": "Characterization of Climatic Events for the Last 2 x 103y through the Retrieval of Ice Cores from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000169", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Characterization of Climatic Events for the Last 2 x 103y through the Retrieval of Ice Cores from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -77.0, "title": "Newall Glacier Snow Pit and Ice Core, 1987 to 1989", "uid": "609088", "west": 162.0}, {"awards": "9316338 Jacobel, Robert", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-155 -81,-154 -81,-153 -81,-152 -81,-151 -81,-150 -81,-149 -81,-148 -81,-147 -81,-146 -81,-145 -81,-145 -81.2,-145 -81.4,-145 -81.6,-145 -81.8,-145 -82,-145 -82.2,-145 -82.4,-145 -82.6,-145 -82.8,-145 -83,-146 -83,-147 -83,-148 -83,-149 -83,-150 -83,-151 -83,-152 -83,-153 -83,-154 -83,-155 -83,-155 -82.8,-155 -82.6,-155 -82.4,-155 -82.2,-155 -82,-155 -81.8,-155 -81.6,-155 -81.4,-155 -81.2,-155 -81))"], "date_created": "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History project was part of Western Divide West Antarctic Ice Cores (WAISCORES), an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis project supported glaciological studies of Siple Dome and its surroundings between Ice Streams C and D, via two major goals. First, it sought to characterize the dynamic environment and ice stratigraphy of Siple Dome and its surroundings, with the specific mission of assessing Siple Dome as a potential deep core site; and second, to determine whether the configuration of ice stream flow in the region has changed over time. Both goals are relevant to understanding the dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), its history, and potential future behavior.\n\nThis project was a collaboration between Saint Olaf College, the University of Washington, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. It included studies of satellite imagery and acquisition and analysis of field data from GPS, firn cores and snow pits, and ground-based ice-penetrating radar.\n\nData in this collection were obtained during two Antarctic field seasons in 1994\u201395 and 1996\u201397. The data set is available via FTP as Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (.xls) and ASCII tab delimited (.txt) files. Related notes are available as a Microsoft Word (.doc) or text (.txt) file. Related images and charts are available as Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg) files.", "east": -145.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-150 -82)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Geology/Geophysics - Other; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Sample/collection Description; Sample/Collection Description; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Jacobel, Robert", "project_titles": "Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000190", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -83.0, "title": "Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History 1994, 1996", "uid": "609085", "west": -155.0}]

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