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Data users should acknowledge the project and grant number, as well as credit Dr. Kim Bernard, Dr. Kirsten Steinke, and Dr. Christian Reiss. 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Specific motivation (and model parameters) comes from quasi-periodic slow slip events on the Whillans Ice Plain in West Antarctica. We quantify the influence of layer thickness on sliding stability, specifically whether steady loading of the system produces steady sliding or sequences of stick-slip events. This dataset contains input files from different parts of parameter space to demonstrate different styles of slip (steady sliding, slow slip sequences, and fast slip sequences).", "east": null, "geometry": null, "keywords": "Antarctica; Computer Model; Glaciology; Model Data; Shear Stress; Solid Earth; Whillans Ice Stream", "locations": "Antarctica; Whillans Ice Stream", "north": null, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Abrahams, Lauren", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Characterizing Brittle Failure and Fracture Propagation in Fast Ice Sliding with Dynamic Rupture Models based on Whillans Ice Stream Seismic/Geodetic Data", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010138", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Characterizing Brittle Failure and Fracture Propagation in Fast Ice Sliding with Dynamic Rupture Models based on Whillans Ice Stream Seismic/Geodetic Data"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": null, "title": "Earthquake Sequence Dynamics at the Interface Between an Elastic Layer and Underlying Half-Space in Antiplane Shear", "uid": "601320", "west": null}, {"awards": "1341606 Stammerjohn, Sharon", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-180 -71.088,-179.7593 -71.088,-179.5186 -71.088,-179.2779 -71.088,-179.0372 -71.088,-178.7965 -71.088,-178.5558 -71.088,-178.3151 -71.088,-178.0744 -71.088,-177.8337 -71.088,-177.593 -71.088,-177.593 -71.5318,-177.593 -71.9756,-177.593 -72.4194,-177.593 -72.8632,-177.593 -73.307,-177.593 -73.7508,-177.593 -74.1946,-177.593 -74.6384,-177.593 -75.0822,-177.593 -75.526,-177.8337 -75.526,-178.0744 -75.526,-178.3151 -75.526,-178.5558 -75.526,-178.7965 -75.526,-179.0372 -75.526,-179.2779 -75.526,-179.5186 -75.526,-179.7593 -75.526,180 -75.526,179.1926 -75.526,178.3852 -75.526,177.5778 -75.526,176.7704 -75.526,175.963 -75.526,175.1556 -75.526,174.3482 -75.526,173.5408 -75.526,172.7334 -75.526,171.926 -75.526,171.926 -75.0822,171.926 -74.6384,171.926 -74.1946,171.926 -73.7508,171.926 -73.307,171.926 -72.8632,171.926 -72.4194,171.926 -71.9756,171.926 -71.5318,171.926 -71.088,172.7334 -71.088,173.5408 -71.088,174.3482 -71.088,175.1556 -71.088,175.963 -71.088,176.7704 -71.088,177.5778 -71.088,178.3852 -71.088,179.1926 -71.088,-180 -71.088))"], "date_created": "Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Atmospheric boundary layer temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind profile data collected with the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO) unmanned aerial system (UAS) during the NBP1704 PIPERS cruise.\r\n", "east": -177.593, "geometry": ["POINT(177.1665 -73.307)"], "keywords": "Air Temperature; Antarctica; Atmosphere; Meteorology; NBP1704; PIPERS; R/v Nathaniel B. 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They are open water surface locations where water mass transformation and densification occurs, and where atmospheric exchanges with the deep ocean circulation are established. Various models of the formation and persistence of these productive and diverse ocean ecosystems are hampered by the relative lack of in situ meteorological and physical oceanographic observations, especially during the inhospitable conditions of their formation and activity during the polar night.\n\nCharacterization of the lower atmosphere properties, air-sea surface heat fluxes and corresponding ocean hydrographic profiles of Antarctic polynyas, especially during strong wind events, is sought for a more detailed understanding of the role of polynyas in the production of latent-heat type sea ice and the formation, through sea ice brine rejection, of dense ocean bottom waters.\n\nA key technological innovation in this work continues to be the use of instrumented unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), to enable the persistent and safe observation of the interaction of light and strong katabatic wind fields, and mesocale cyclones in the Terra Nova Bay (Victoria Land, Antarctica) polynya waters during late winter and early summer time frames.\n", "east": 172.0, "geometry": ["POINT(167.5 -76.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; Meteorology; Navigation; Oceans; Southern Ocean; Unmanned Aircraft", "locations": "Southern Ocean; Antarctica", "north": -74.5, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Cassano, John; Palo, Scott", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Interactions in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya, Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000417", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Interactions in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya, Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -78.5, "title": "Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Interactions in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya, Antarctica", "uid": "600125", "west": 163.0}, {"awards": "0838914 Wannamaker, Philip", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((141.01732 -82.13,144.910279 -82.13,148.803238 -82.13,152.696197 -82.13,156.589156 -82.13,160.482115 -82.13,164.375074 -82.13,168.268033 -82.13,172.160992 -82.13,176.053951 -82.13,179.94691 -82.13,179.94691 -82.351835,179.94691 -82.57367,179.94691 -82.795505,179.94691 -83.01734,179.94691 -83.239175,179.94691 -83.46101,179.94691 -83.682845,179.94691 -83.90468,179.94691 -84.126515,179.94691 -84.34835,176.053951 -84.34835,172.160992 -84.34835,168.268033 -84.34835,164.375074 -84.34835,160.482115 -84.34835,156.589156 -84.34835,152.696197 -84.34835,148.803238 -84.34835,144.910279 -84.34835,141.01732 -84.34835,141.01732 -84.126515,141.01732 -83.90468,141.01732 -83.682845,141.01732 -83.46101,141.01732 -83.239175,141.01732 -83.01734,141.01732 -82.795505,141.01732 -82.57367,141.01732 -82.351835,141.01732 -82.13))"], "date_created": "Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The investigators will examine competing hypotheses for the mechanism of extension and creation of the Transantarctic Mountains, and evolution of the thermal regimes of rifted West Antarctica and stable East Antarctica using magnetotelluric (MT) profiles. Surrounded almost entirely by ocean ridges, Antarctica is a special tectonic situation because of the need to make accommodation space for rifting in the Transantarctic region. In the MT method, temporal variations in the Earth\u0027s natural electromagnetic field are used as source fields to probe the electrical resistivity structure in the depth range of 1 to 200 km, or more. Geophysical methods, such as MT, are appropriate in Antarctica because of the predominance of thick ice cover over most of the Continent and the difficult operating environment. The proposed effort will consist of approximately 50 sites over a distance approaching 500 km with a 10 km average spacing, oriented normal to the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM), in the Beardmore glacier area. High quality MT soundings will be collected over thick ice sheets using a custom electrode preamp design, updated from previous Antarctic projects. Data acquisition will take place over two field seasons. The primary goals are three-fold: to establish the location of the deeper tectonic transition between East and West Antarctica that may be offset from the physiographic transition at the surface, using deep resistivity structure distinguish between modes of extensional upwelling and magmatism that may be vertically non-uniform, depth and magnitude of quasi-layered deep crustal low resistivity, particularly below West Antarctica, will be used to estimate crustal heat flux into the ice sheet base.\n", "east": 179.94691, "geometry": ["POINT(160.482115 -83.239175)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Magnetotelluric; Potential Field; Solid Earth; Transantarctic Mountains", "locations": "Antarctica; Transantarctic Mountains", "north": -82.13, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Wannamaker, Philip", "project_titles": "Rift Mechanisms and Thermal Regime of the Lithosphere across Beardmore Glacier Region, Central Transantarctic Mountains, from Magnetotelluric Measurements", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000247", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Rift Mechanisms and Thermal Regime of the Lithosphere across Beardmore Glacier Region, Central Transantarctic Mountains, from Magnetotelluric Measurements"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -84.34835, "title": "Rift Mechanisms and Thermal Regime of the Lithosphere across Beardmore Glacier Region, Central Transantarctic Mountains, from Magnetotelluric Measurements", "uid": "600102", "west": 141.01732}, {"awards": "0739464 Cassano, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((160 -74.5,161.5 -74.5,163 -74.5,164.5 -74.5,166 -74.5,167.5 -74.5,169 -74.5,170.5 -74.5,172 -74.5,173.5 -74.5,175 -74.5,175 -74.9,175 -75.3,175 -75.7,175 -76.1,175 -76.5,175 -76.9,175 -77.3,175 -77.7,175 -78.1,175 -78.5,173.5 -78.5,172 -78.5,170.5 -78.5,169 -78.5,167.5 -78.5,166 -78.5,164.5 -78.5,163 -78.5,161.5 -78.5,160 -78.5,160 -78.1,160 -77.7,160 -77.3,160 -76.9,160 -76.5,160 -76.1,160 -75.7,160 -75.3,160 -74.9,160 -74.5))"], "date_created": "Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Antarctic polynyas are the ice free zones often persisting in continental sea ice. 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The projects use of UAS platforms by University of Colorado and LDEO (Columbia) researchers is both high risk, and potentially transformative for the systematic data measurement tasks that many Antarctic science applications increasingly require.", "east": 175.0, "geometry": ["POINT(167.5 -76.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; Meteorology; Navigation; Oceans; Ross Sea; Sea Ice; Southern Ocean; Terra Nova Bay; UAV", "locations": "Southern Ocean; Terra Nova Bay; Antarctica; Ross Sea", "north": -74.5, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Cassano, John; Maslanik, Jim", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interaction in a Coastal Polynya", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000678", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interaction in a Coastal Polynya"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -78.5, "title": "Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interaction in a Coastal Polynya", "uid": "600075", "west": 160.0}]

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