A-Z of Datasets
Alphabetical Index
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Datasets
ACES-ACCENT: Antarctic Climate Change and Nonlinear Teleconnections
ACES will investigate the atmospheric and oceanic links that connect the climate of the Antarctic to that of lower latitudes, and their controlling mechanisms. Specific research topics will include the formation and properties of Antarctic ...
ACES-FOCAS: Forcings from the Ocean, Clouds, Atmosphere and Sea-ice
ACES will investigate the atmospheric and oceanic links that connect the climate of the Antarctic to that of lower latitudes, and their controlling mechanisms. Specific research topics will include the formation and properties of Antarctic ...
AFI 01/01 - Biodiversity response to climate change: biodiversity and climate significance of Tertiary forest communities of Antarctica - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
New collections of plant fossils of Tertiary age from the Antarctic Peninsula will be studied to determine the ecological response of vegetation to climate change at high latitudes. Analyses of fossil wood and leaves using newly developed t...
AFI 01/01_01 - Biodiversity response to climate change: biodiversity and climate significance of Tertiary forest communities of Antarctica - Fossil wood & leaves of Tertiary age, Seymour Island & adjacent, 2001
During field work in 2001 over 1600 specimens were collected from four main fossil plant assemblages: the ''Nordenksjold flora'' from the Cross Valley Formation of Late Palaeocene age; and 3 floras from La Meseta Formation i) Flora2 from th...
AFI 01/01_02 - Biodiversity response to climate change: biodiversity and climate significance of Tertiary forest communities of Antarctica - Analysis of fossil wood & leaves of Tertiary age, Seymour Island&adjacent, 2001
Fossils from Palaeogene strata on Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, were studied to determine the nature of vegetation response to the fundamental change from greenhouse to icehouse climates in Antarctica. Palaeoclimate data was derived ...
AFI 01/03 - Risk assessment and insurance in marine predator life-histories - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Iteroparous animals operating in highly variable and unpredictable environments would be expected to minimise the risk to fitness associated with reproduction by maintaining large energy stores. This strategy is likely to be significantly d...
AFI 01/05 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The aims of the RABID Project are to: 1) Understand controls on present-day ice stream dynamics and elucidate basal conditions and the processes of fast flow; 2) Interpret past ice sheet history in this region of West Antarctica. The projec...
AFI 01/05_01 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Borehole sensors data, 2004/06
Approximatively 1MB of ice temperature data acquired during the RABID Project. Measured on a thermistor cable with 10 sensors located at depths between 15 m and 300 m below the surface. Collected between November 2004 and February 2006.
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AFI 01/05_02 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Drill monitoring data, 2004/06
Digital time series data collected for monitoring of drilling during the RABID Project. Water temperature, pressure, flow. Drill depth and hose tension.
Instrumentation:
SENSORS
Flow meter - Kobold Instruments Ltd, L25 axial turbine f...
AFI 01/05_03 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - GPS data, 2004/06
GPS positions from sensors monitoring ice flow during the RABID Project (Leica and Trimble receivers). Five stations on the ice stream, plus one on slow-moving adjacent ice sheet (Fletcher Promontory), and one on a nunatak (unofficial name ...
AFI 01/05_04 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Seismic reflection data, 2004/06
Digital seismic reflection data (BISON 9024 seismograph) acquired during the RABID Project. Data collected using 24 channels, active source (explosives). Four single-fold lines. Line length 3.6 km.
Instrumentation
Data logger: BISON 902...
AFI 01/05_05 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Ice core samples, 2004/06
Sections of ice core acquired from upper 100 m of the ice stream during the RABID Project. Retrieved using hot-water corer. Cores taken at selected depths in two adjacent holes. Core section length = up to 4 m. Number of core sections = 6. ...
AFI 01/05_06 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Radar data, 2004/06
Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) data acquired during the RABID Project with a Mala GPR....
AFI 01/05_07 - Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Hot-water drilling and down-hole instrumentation - Weather data, 2004/06
Weather data acquired on Rutford Ice Stream during the RABID Project. Wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, solar radiation recored with an HOBO AWS (Automatic Weather Station: data logger & sensors );...
AFI 01/07 - Observations of Antarctic precipitation processes - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Observations of Antarctic precipitation processes.
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AFI 01/07_01 - Observations of Antarctic Precipitation processes - Air samples and analyses, 2000/03
The sampling programme was carried out successfully using kites and helium balloon assisted kites to sample in both low and higher winds speeds. Air samples were successfully processed using the Ice Nucleus chamber for a variety of wind dir...
AFI 01/07_02 - Observations of Antarctic Precipitation processes - Ice Nuclei & Meteorological Data, Mount Rex, Antarctica Jan-Feb 2002
The sampling programme was carried out successfully using kites and helium balloon assisted kites to sample in both low and higher winds speeds. Air samples were successfully processed using the Ice Nucleus chamber for a variety of wind dir...
AFI 01/08 - Imaging the plasmasphere from Antarctica - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The plasmaphere is a vital part of man''s environmental envelope as it is a major source of plasma both for the geomagnetic tail and the night-time ionosphere. We deployed a refurbished VLF Doppler Receiver at Rothera to measure plasmaspher...
AFI 01/08_01 - Imaging the plasmasphere from Antarctica - VLF Doppler (Doppler Radio Receiver) at Rothera 2001-2002
New instrumentation was deployed in the Antarctic Peninsula region to monitor conditions occurring in the region of near-space surrounding the Earth. The opportunity was taken to link into a NASA satellite mission occurring at the same time...
AFI 01/10 - The structure of zooplankton aggregations as determined by multi-frequency acoustics and nets - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The spatial structure of any ecosystem is critical to its operation. Therefore understanding the role of spatial structure in ecosystem functioning is of global importance. Heterogeneity across all spatial scales is characteristic of both m...
AFI 01/10_01 - Structure of zooplankton aggregations - Net mounted sonar (TUBA - Towed Undulating BioAcoustic Sensor) data
AFI 01/10 - The structure of zooplankton aggregations as determined by multi-frequency acoustics and nets
Data collected from 15 net hauls on BAS cruise JR058 using net mounted sonar - TUBA (Towed Undulating BioAcoustic Sensor). Data ar...
AFI 01/10_02 - Structure of zooplankton aggregations - Net sample data, 2000/03
AFI 01/10 - The structure of zooplankton aggregations as determined by multi-frequency acoustics and nets
Data collected from 15 net hauls on BAS cruise JR058. Data are zooplankton (mainly krill and salps) entering the net during hauls ...
AFI 01/10_03 - Structure of zooplankton aggregations - Hull-mounted (EK500) echosounder data - JR058, 2000/03
AFI 01/10 - The structure of zooplankton aggregations as determined by multi-frequency acoustics and nets
Data were collected with Simard EK500 scientific echo-sounder running on RRS James Clark Ross during net hauls where TUBA were d...
AFI 01/27 - Dyke intrusions as tracers of continental break-up processes - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The style and volume of magmatism varies between margins from large volume flood basalts such as the Parana or Deccan provinces to less volumetric margins such as the southern part of the South Atlantic. This case studentship is intended to...
AFI 01/27_01 - Dyke intrusions as tracers of continental break-up processes - Rock samples collected in Dronning Maud Land in 2000/2001
The style and volume of magmatism varies between margins from large volume flood basalts such as the Parana or Deccan provinces to less volumetric margins such as the southern part of the South Atlantic. This CASE (Collaborative Awards in S...
AFI 01/27_02 - Dyke intrusions as tracers of continental break-up processes - Ar-Ar dating, field data and selected geochemical analysis data of rock samples collected in Dronning Maud Land in 2000/2001
The style and volume of magmatism varies between margins from large volume flood basalts such as the Parana or Deccan provinces to less volumetric margins such as the southern part of the South Atlantic. This case (Collaborative Awards in S...
AFI 02/30 - The status of dark septate fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The status of dark septate (D.S.) fungi in Antarctic environments will be evaluated. While these organisms have been shown to dominate the microbial communities of roots and soil in Antarctica, and other cold-stressed habitats, their funct...
AFI 02/30_01 - The status of dark septate fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities - Fungal cultures, plant and soil samples (live and frozen) collected from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region in 2002/2003
Three plant species, the leafy liverwort Cephaloziella varians and the angiosperms Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis, were sampled from 12 islands across a 1480 km latitudinal gradient from South Georgia through to Adelaide I...
AFI 02/30_02 - The status of dark septate fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities - Analysis of fungal cultures, plant and soil samples collected from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region in 2002/2003
This study investigated the status of dark septate ("DS") fungi in Antarctic plant and soil communities, with the aim of determining the abundance of DS fungi in plant roots and rhizoids, their taxonomic affinities and their symbi...
AFI 02/34 - Latitudinal clines in physiological capacities and upper limits in Antarctic marine invertebrates. - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Antarctic marine invertebrates live at one extreme of conditions available in the worlds oceans. Their environment is one of low, but extremely stable temperature, and they can live only within narrow temperature ranges (usually -2 degrees ...
AFI 02/36 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Drake Passage/Scotia Sea region is one of three "gateways" which allow mantle to flow from the shrinking Pacific Ocean to the expanding Atlantic Ocean. Working on the existing BAS collection, we have established using isotope...
AFI 02/36_01 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Dredge sampling information from the Scotia Sea collected in February and March 2004
The target area was along the eastern segments of the West Scotia Ridge, an ocean spreading centre which stopped spreading about 10 million years ago. The spreading centre has high topographic relief and contains an axial rift, which has fl...
AFI 02/36_02 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Rock samples collected by dredging in the Scotia Sea, February and March 2004
Sampling was undertaken within the West Scotia Sea in an attempt to identify the boundary between the Pacific and Bouvet mantle domains and so understand, quantify and document the flow of mantle - which is important for understanding globa...
AFI 02/36_03 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Swath Bathymetry conducted in the Scotia Sea, February and March 2004
The target area was along the eastern segments of the West Scotia Ridge, an ocean spreading centre which stopped spreading about 10 million years ago. The spreading centre has high topographic relief and contains an axial rift, which has fl...
AFI 02/36_04 - Geochemical Tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic Mantle Flow through the Drake Passage/Scotia Sea Gateway - Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected by dredging in the Scotia Sea, February and March 2004
The initial aim of this project was to carry out a higher resolution geochemical study of mantle flow using existing samples. This confirmed flow from the Bouvet domain into the East Scotia Sea and placed constraints on flow pathways. The s...
AFI 02/37 - Identifying terranes in the Antarctic Peninsula using primitive basalt dykes as lithospheric probes - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The chemistry of mafic volcanic rocks and minor intrusions erupted on continents can be used to define the composition and history of subcontinental asthenospheric and lithospheric mantle domains. We have produced new and collated published...
AFI 02/37_01 - Identifying terranes in the Antarctic Peninsula using primitive basalt dykes as lithospheric probes - Rock samples collected from Palmer Land and Graham Land in the 2001/2002 field season.
Initial work during the 2001/2002 field season commenced with reconnaissance and sampling in northeast Palmer Land. Over a two month period, outcrop from the Welch Mountains to the Eternity Range was visited, the geology described, and maf...
AFI 02/37_02 - Identifying terranes in the Antarctic Peninsula using primitive basalt dykes as lithospheric probes - Geochemical and petrographic analysis of rock samples, 2001/02
The chemistry of mafic volcanic rocks and minor intrusions erupted on continents can be used to define the composition and history of subcontinental asthenospheric and lithospheric mantle domains. We have produced new and collated published...
AFI 02/38 - Late Cretaceous radiation and extinction events in the Southern Hemisphere - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The aim of this project was to improve our existing knowledge of the geology of James Ross Island with the use of a new strontium isotope dating technique. We re-visited an area that had previously been mapped in some detail to carry out pr...
AFI 02/38_01 - Late Cretaceous radiation and extinction events in the Southern Hemisphere -Rock & fossil specimens, James Ross Island
To provide further stratigraphic resolution through the Gustav Group a key section through the Kotick Point, Whisky Bay and Hidden Lake formations, adjacent to Brandy Bay on northern James Ross Island was re-measured and sampled for both Sr...
AFI 02/38_02 - Late Cretaceous radiation and extinction events in the Southern Hemisphere - Analysis of rock & fossil specimens, James Ross Island
To obtain a global view of climate change, the climatic and evolutionary history of the Southern Hemisphere needs to be integrated into the picture, and an integration of high-latitude change is particularly important. To assist this integr...
AFI 02/47 - Genetic variation in Antarctic lichens - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The project aimed to determine the extent of genetic variation in selected species of Antarctic lichen-forming fungi and how this relates to modes of reproduction such as vegetative propagation and self-fertilisation (homothallism). The wor...
AFI 02/47_01 - Specimens, Cultures, Ribosomal and other genomic DNA sequences collected from Antarctica
The planned fieldwork involved collection of fertile lichens from a range of sites across the Antarctic Peninsula and isolation of the lichen-forming fungi into pure culture in a laboratory at Rothera. Approximately 5,600 monospore cultures...
AFI 02/47_02 - Genetic Variation in Antarctic endemics and bipolar lichen
Genetic variation on a spatial scale was assessed, using both DNA fingerprinting and sequencing-based approaches, in the Antarctic endemics Buellia frigida, Carbonia vorticosa and Amandinea petermananii, and in the bipolar species Caloplaca...
AFI 02/47_03 - DNA fingerprints to determine selfing (homothallism) or outcrossing in Antarctic lichen
The majority of Antarctic lichens produce sexual organs, and in many species sexual ascospores appear to be the only reproductive propagule. However, it is unknown whether sexual reproduction involves selfing (homothallism) or outcrossing. ...
AFI 02/48 - Ice-rafted debris on the Antarctic continental margin and dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Ice-rafted (Heinrich) layers in the North Atlantic provide clear evidence that basins of large Quaternary ice sheets have, in the past, exhibited major dynamic instabilities. It was timely to extend detailed study of ice-rafted debris laye...
AFI 02/48_01 - Ice-rafted debris on the Antarctic continental margin and dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - Swath Bathymetry, EM120 & TOPAS data collected from the Weddell Sea and Marguerite Bay, Feb & March 2002
Ice-rafted (Heinrich) layers in the North Atlantic provide clear evidence that basins of large Quaternary ice sheets have, in the past, exhibited major dynamic instabilities. The presence of large ice sheets on the modern Antarctic continen...
AFI 02/48_02 - Ice-rafted debris on the Antarctic continental margin and dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - Vibro & gravity cores, sediments & data collected from the Weddell Sea & Marguerite Bay, Feb & March 2002
Ice-rafted (Heinrich) layers in the North Atlantic provide clear evidence that basins of large Quaternary ice sheets have, in the past, exhibited major dynamic instabilities. The presence of large ice sheets on the modern Antarctic continen...
AFI 02/65 - Investigation of widespread enhanced flow in the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Recent evidence suggests that complex flow is present throughout the interior of Antarctica. This new discovery questions our understanding of flow characteristics in the interior of the ice sheet. This project aimed to investigate the fl...
AFI 02/65_01 - Investigation of widespread enhanced flow in the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet - Airborne radio-echo sounding measurements
Airborne radio-echo sounding (RES) measurements of surface elevation, bed topography and ice thickness were made across the Bailey/Slessor region of East Antarctica. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the newly discov...
AFI 02/65_02 - Analysis of surface elevation, bed topography and ice thickness
Analysis of surface elevation, bed topography and ice thickness across the Bailey/Slessor region of East Antarctica.
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AFI 02/69 - Millennial-scale variability of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The project aimed to map, survey and sample the glacial and near-shore lake deposits in each valley for information on glacier history, former sea level history and transport of material from the mainland to Alexander Island. An understand...
AFI 02/69_01 - Millennial-scale variability of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula -Sediment core samples and analyses of sediment core samples from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes, 2001/2002
Sediment cores were collected from the 3 sites (approx. 6m from Moutonnee Valley, 2.5m from Ablation Valley and 5m from Citadel Bastion). They were analysed for physical property data including: magnetic susceptibility, wet weight, loss on ...
AFI 02/69_02 - Millennial-scale variability of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula - Analyses of snow and ice samples from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes, 2001/2002
Snow and ice samples were taken from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes. Isotopic analyses of Oxygen, Carbon and Deuterium were conducted on the samples.
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AFI 02/69_03 - Millennial-scale variability of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula - Analyses of lake water samples from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes, 2001/2002
Isotopic analyses of Oxygen, Carbon and Deuterium were conducted on the lake water samples.
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AFI 02/69_04 - Millennial-scale variability of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula - Sediment trap and delta data from the Moutonnee Lake, 2001/2002
Sediment trap and delta samples were taken from the Moutonnee Lake in 2001/2002. Samples were analysed for grain size, Carbon and Nitrogen content and isotopic Carbon content. Delta samples were also analysed for luminescence dating.
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AFI 02/69_05 - Millennial-scale variability of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula - General reference data - soil, rock and biological samples from the Moutonnee, Ablation and Citadel Lakes, 2001/2002
The general reference data consists of soil, rock and biological samples. These were analysed for grain size, CHN and carbon isotopes.
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AFI 03/03 - Chemistry of the Antarctic boundary layer and the interface with snow (CHABLIS) - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Over recent years, the chemistry of snow-covered polar regions has been shown to be much more complex and interesting than previously imagined. Rather than being a benign substrate, the snow-pack is photochemically active and capable of gen...
AFI 03/03_01 - Surface ozone measurements
Surface ozone measurements were made, using a 2B-Technologies (Model 202) ozone analyzer, between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_02 - Aerolaser CO measurements
Carbon monoxide measurements were made, using an Aerolaser fast CO monitor, between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006)....
AFI 03/03_03 - Aerolaser HCHO Monitor
Formaldehyde measurements were made, using an Aerolaser HCHO Monitor Model AL4021, between 2004 and 2007. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_04 - Aethalometer at Halley Station (Black Carbon)
Black Carbon measurements were made using an Aethalometer (AE16), between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_05 - Met data from 4 metre mast situated near CASLAB
Full meteorological dataset taken from mast near to the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) during the CHABLIS campaign (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_06 - CASLAB temperature data
Temperature measurements were made between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_08 - Condensation Particle Counter
Condensation particle concentration measurements were made, TSI Inc Condensation Particle Counter, (Model 3010, S/N 2375), between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of t...
AFI 03/03_09 - HNO3 concentrations
Nitric acid measurements were made using ion chromatography, between 2004 and 2006. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_10 - Major ions from Cascade Impactor sampling at Halley
Concentrations of major ions were measured using cascade impactor sampling, between 2003 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_11 - Weather observations taken at Halley during the CHABLIS campaign
Meteorological observations were taken between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_12 - NOx Chemiluminescence Analyser
NOx measurements were made, using a chemiluminescence analyser, between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_13 - Pollution Filter
Pollution filter data were collected between 2001 and 2006. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_15 - Radiation measurements
Measurements of atmospheric radiation were made between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_16 - Met data (including precipitation, coverage, and wind)
Meteorological data (including precipitation, coverage, and wind) were collected between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006)....
AFI 03/03_17 - Major ions concentrations from monthly snow pit sampling at Halley
Measurements of the concentrations of major ions in snow samples were made, using ion chromatography, between 2004 and 2005. Snow was collected using surface sampling and snow pits. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laborat...
AFI 03/03_19 - Actinic fluxes measured by the BAS spectroradiometer at Halley
Actinic fluxes were measured using the BAS spectroradiometer, during 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006)....
AFI 03/03_21 - HONO mixing ratio/ pptv HONO (nitrous acid) measurements
Nitrous acid (HONO) mixing ratio measurements were made between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_22 - Total Peroxy radical (HO2 + RO2) measurements
Total Peroxy radical (HO2 + RO2) measurements were made, during 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_23 - Dew Point measurements from Campbell Scientific Dew point hygrometer sampling from roof from FAGE container
Dew point measurements were made using a Campbell Scientific Dew point hygrometer in 2005. The measurements were taken from samples collected on the roof of the FAGE container. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (...
AFI 03/03_24 - FAGE OH, HO2, and radiometer measurements at Halley,
FAGE OH, HO2, and radiometer measurements were made in 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_25 - GC-FID Year-round NMHC measurements at Halley
NMHC measurements were made, using a GC-FID, between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_26 - HPLC-PCD time series of H2O2
H2O2 measurements were made using a HPLC-PCD system, between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_27 - Met data from station situated on top of FAGE container
Meteorological data were collected in 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_28 - O3 and NO measurements from TEI instruments sampling from roof of FAGE container
O3 and NO measurements were made in 2005, using TEI instruments attached to the roof of the FAGE container. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006).
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AFI 03/03_30 - UEA NI-GCMS Bottle samples, Organic nitrates and selected Halocarbons
Concentrations of organic nitrates and selected halocarbons in bottle samples were measured using NI-GCMS, between 2004 and 2006. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS proje...
AFI 03/03_32 - UEA Cryo-PAN instrument
PAN mixing ratio measurements were made, using the UEA Cryo-PAN instrument, between 2004 and 2005. The work was carried out at the Clean Air Sector Laboratory (Halley, Antarctica) as part of the CHABLIS project (2001-2006)....
AFI 03/13 - Determining the origin of exotic crustal fragments on the Gondwana margin using Hf-isotope techniques - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Antarctic Peninsula is made up of suspect terranes accreted to the Gondwana margin in the Mesozoic. The peninsula fills a key gap in the margin between South America and New Zealand. The ages of detrital zircons in sedimentary rocks (d...
AFI 03/13_01 - rocks, rock powders and mineral seperates collected from eastern Ellsworth Land in the 2002/2003 field season
Despite the important tectonic and stratigraphic setting, rocks from the English Coast area remain largely unstudied, as the paucity of exposure has hindered detailed structural and sedimentological analysis. Samples were collected for zir...
AFI 03/13_02 - Geological Station and Sample Registers, and processed geochemical data from rocks collected in eastern Ellsworth Land, 2002/2003
Examining the provenance of certain sedimentary rock sequences can potentially identify where sequences were originally deposited in relation to each other. Minerals found in sediments that are resistant to earth surface processes such as w...
AFI 03/13_03 - Raw geochemical analyses data (zircon analysis) from rocks collected in eastern Ellsworth Land in the 2002/2003 field season
A new technique that coupled SHRIMP U-Pb analyses with Laser ablation ICP isotope analyses for detrital zircons enabled the provenance of sediments from the English Coast region to be better assessed than had been previously possible. Such...
AFI 03/16 - Moorings to investigate intra-annual variability in Krill abundance and water-mass physical characteristics at South Georgia - PROJECT
Two moorings were deployed on and off shelf NW of South Georgia to record water-column acoustic backscatter, current velocity, temperature and salinity over a 2 year period. They provided daily estimates of Antarctic krill abundance and co...
AFI 03/16_01 - Ship-collected data (CTD, fishing, echosoundings, swath bathymetry) from the Southern Ocean
CTD profiles, echosoundings, and swath bathymetry data were collected from the Southern Ocean between October 2002 and January 2006. Fishing was also undertaken around the mooring positions to ground-truth the acoustic data. Specifically, R...
AFI 03/16_01_01 - CTD data
CTD profiles were taken between 2002 and 2006. The data were collected as part of the project AFI 03/16....
AFI 03/16_01_02 - Samples collected by fishing
Fishing was undertaken around the mooring positions to ground truth the acoustic data. Specifically, RMT hauls were used to learn more about the vertical distribution of plankton, krill, mysids and fish around these particular positions du...
AFI 03/16_01_03 - Echosounding data
Echosounding data were collected between 2002 and 2006. The data were collected as part of the project AFI 03/16...
AFI 03/16_01_04 - Swath bathymetry data
Swath bathymetry data were collected between 2002 and 2006. The data were collected as part of the project AFI 03/16....
AFI 03/16_02 - ADCP data from shallow & deep moorings
AFI 03/16 - Moorings to investigate intra-annual variability in Krill abundance and water-mass physical characteristics at South Georgia
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is of vital importance to the South Georgia marine ecosystem. It...
AFI 03/16_03 - CTD data from shallow & deep moorings
AFI 03/16 - Moorings to investigate intra-annual variability in Krill abundance and water-mass physical characteristics at South Georgia: Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD) data from shallow (300m) and deep (1300m) moorings in the Souther...
AFI 03/16_04 - WCP data from shallow & deep moorings
AFI 03/16 - Moorings to investigate intra-annual variability in Krill abundance and water-mass physical characteristics at South Georgia: Water Column Profiler (WCP) data from shallow (300m) and deep (1300m) moorings in the Southern Ocean c...
AFI 03/21 - An exploratory study to develop microsatellite primers for two species of Antarctic fish - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project was in response to the request by the AFI Moderating Panel (June 2000) to submit an application for an exploratory study to develop microsatellites and test for population structuring in the Antarctic. The emphasis is thus on ...
AFI 03/36 - North Scotia Ridge Overflow Project - PROJECT
- 3 moorings deployed and recovered (from UKORS).
- Salinity measurements on survey cruise
- Nutrients and oxygen measurements.
We undertook the first ever comprehensive hydrographic transect along the North Scotia Ridge, additionally...
AFI 03/36_01 - North Scotia Ridge Overflow Project - Mooring data, 2003/05
Discrete ocean temperature, salinity and current measurements at four locations in Shag Rocks Passage. Moorings were deployed at 4 locations in Shag Rocks Passage (5255.6700S, 4745.5500W), (5255.6530S, 4745.9920W), (5302.5100S, 4802.7700W),...
AFI 03/36_02 - North Scotia Ridge Overflow Project - LADCP-CTD data, 2003/05
LADCP-CTD data, during cruises JR 80 and 110
(Lowered Accoustic Doppler Current Profiler (LADCP) / Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD))
CTD measurements taken at each location for calibration of the instruments on the moorings. Four CT...
AFI 03/36_03 - North Scotia Ridge Overflow Project - Argo floats data, 2003/05
ARGO floats measure temperature and salinity. Seven floats were deployed in November 2004 on JR110, these report automatically to BODC....
AFI 04/02 -Behaviour of trace element and isotope ratios of sea-ice brine and microalgae: reconstructing the Antarctic sea-ice environment - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Our ability to reconstruct past conditions of Southern Ocean surface waters is critical to our understanding of the causes of glacial-interglacial differences in atmospheric concentrations of CO2.The extent to which sedimentation of materia...
AFI 04/02_01 - Analysis of sea-ice, water and brine samples for nutrient and chlorophyll content collected from Ryder Bay in 2005
Water samples were collected for chlorophyll and nutrient concentrations, biogenic and lithogenic silica concentrations, POC and PON concentrations, phytoplankton identification, Si, C, N, and Ge isotopes, particulate Ba, and other trace el...
AFI 04/02_02 - Analysis of sediment traps and CTD/rosette casts in Ryder and Marguerite Bay
Sediment traps were deployed and recovered and CTD/rosette casts were taken at two sites, one in Ryder Bay and one in Marguerite Bay. Biogeochemical proxy signals of nutrients and organic matter were assessed in sea ice compared to the open...
AFI 04/02_03 - Analysis of cores collected in Ryder and Marguerite Bay between 2005 and 2006
Box core samples were analysed for carbon and nitrogen isotopes, barium, aluminium and uranium and other lithogenic dust. Core dating was calculated and population analyses were used to determine species composition. The box cores were coll...
AFI 04/02_04 - Analysis of ship based CTDs and water samples collected in Marguerite Bay in January 2005 and December 2006
CTD casts were conducted to describe the physical structure of the water column and to provide water samples for nutrient and particulate matter analyses from the James Clark Ross. A CTD transect was also conducted on a cruise across the mo...
AFI 04/02_05 - Analysis of piston core from Wedell Sea
Piston core PS1506, a repeat of core PS1387, was collected from a midslope bench on the continental margin on the southern limb of the Weddell Gyre in the vicinity of cores PS1388 and PS1389. At these core sites in the Weddell Sea, polynyas...
AFI 04/05 - Testing Gondwana break-up and plume models: constraints from magma flow directions - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Models concerning the location of mantle plumes and triple junctions associated with the Mesozoic break-up of Gondwana in the Antarctic-southern Africa sector are not capable of independent testing, other than by geochemical and age dating ...
AFI 04/05_01 - Testing Gondwana break-up and plume models: constraints from magma flow directions - Geological Observations
Field observations, made during the 2004/2005 field season, using such features as sill steps, sill bridges, orientated phenocrysts and asymmetric structures to determine regional magma flow directions in the Theron Mountains. A full photog...
AFI 04/05_02 - Testing Gondwana break-up and plume models: constraints from magma flow directions - Geological Samples
Collection of over 1 tonne of rock samples in the Theron Mountains, with an emphasis on the mainline of the enscarpment, which was reached by climbing the scree slopes at the base of the cliffs or by traversing the skyline, during the 2004/...
AFI 04/05_03 - Testing Gondwana break-up and plume models: constraints from magma flow directions - Geological Analyses
Laboratory measurements of the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS), made on a collection of sill samples. AMS involves the collection of some 1 metric tonne of oriented samples and the lab based determination of the magmatic flow fa...
AFI 04/09 - Improving ice-core interpretation: the role of storm-track changes on sub-annual Peninsula precipitation variability - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Ice cores are a primary data-source for information on past climate but transfer functions between the data they contain and climate variables are often essentially speculative. This proposal significantly advanced ice-core interpretation t...
AFI 04/09_01 - Improving ice-core interpretation - AWS data, Rothschild, Latady & Smyley Islands, 2005
The project was concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere''s properties are preserved in the snow. Three micro-power Aut...
AFI 04/09_02 - Improving ice-core interpretation - Analysis of Snow/Ice cores collected from Rothschild, Latady & Smyley Islands, 2006
The project was concerned with understanding how air mass origin and meteorology affect the mass accumulation of snow in areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, and how the atmosphere''s properties are preserved in the snow. Ground truth measurem...
AFI 04/13 - Biogeochemical particle flux study in Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The overall aim of this AFI project was to calculate a salt, heat and nutrient budget for Marguerite Bay, the embayment adjacent to Rothera research station. This was achieved by a combination of long-term moorings deployed from research sh...
AFI 04/13_01 - Analysis of moorings deployed in Ryder Bay and Marguerite Bay
Moorings were deployed and recovered using the James Clark Ross (cruise number: JR112/113, JR155). One was deployed in Ryder Bay at the Rothera Time-Series (RaTS) oceanographic station mid way between Rothera Point and Leonie Islands. The o...
AFI 04/13_02 - Analysis of water collected at Ryder Bay
Water samples were collected from Ryder Bay using a small boat. A biogeochemical profile was performed at the following 5 depths: 0m (Surface), 5m, 10m, 15m and 25m at the RaTS site, for four RaTS events on: 7th January, 13th January, 19th ...
AFI 04/13_03 - Nutrient and chlorophyll assays conducted on water samples collected in Ryder Bay
For the 2005-2006 season, the same sampling procedure for collection of water samples was followed; a biogeochemical profile at 5 depths: 0m (Surface), 5m, 10m, 15m and 25m was conducted at the RaTS site. In addition to this, primary produc...
AFI 04/13_04 - Analysis of ship based CTDs and water samples collected in Marguerite Bay
CTD casts were conducted to describe the physical structure of the water column and to provide water samples for nutrient and particulate matter analyses from the James Clark Ross (cruise number: JR112/113, JR136/137, JR155 & JR174).
...
AFI 04/16 - Satellite-Derived Elevation Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula CVaCS-DECAP - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Correction, Verification and Context, of Satellite-Derived Elevation Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula CVaCS-DECAP
High snowfall, rapid ice flow and recent climate change mean that the Antarctic Peninsula may make a disproportionate con...
AFI 04/16_01 - Satellite-Derived Elevation Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula CVaCS-DECAP - Glacier flow vertical motion measurements, Antarctic Peninsula, 2005/07
Correction, Verification and Context, of Satellite-Derived Elevation Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula CVaCS-DECAP
The aim of the project was to measure the various factors that affect altitude of snow surfaces in Antarctica, in order ...
AFI 04/17 - Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Sparse existing data suggest that a very dynamic glacial system has deposited vast quantities of sediment in the Bellingshausen Sea. From ~84-88 degrees W the continental slope comprises a trough-mouth fan ("TMF") with a gradient ...
AFI 04/17_01 - Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - EM120 Swath Bathymetry and TOPAS sub-bottom profiler data, Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
The main aim of this project was to carry out the first systematic investigation of the former ice drainage basin in the southern Bellingshausen Sea, using sediment cores, swath bathymetry by means of the EM120 multibeam echo sounder and th...
AFI 04/17_02 - Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Sediment cores collected in the Bellingshausen Sea, 2004
The main aim of this project was to carry out the first systematic investigation of the former ice drainage basin in the southern Bellingshausen Sea, using sediment cores, swath bathymetry by means of the EM120 multibeam echo sounder and th...
AFI 05/01 - Alkyl nitrates and organo-halogens in the Antarctic: production in seawater and role in atmospheric chemistry
We have recently shown that the oceans are a source of methyl and ethyl nitrate to the air, providing the first direct evidence for the oceanic source invoked by atmospheric investigators. Thus, the oceans potentially play an important role...
AFI 05/01_01 - Depth profiles and underway measurements of seawater and trace gas analysis data collected in the Southern Ocean
During passage from Stanley (Falklands Islands) to South Georgia, Stanley to Rothera and within the Western Core Box, 14 depth profiles, 70 surface seawater samples and 60 air samples were analysed for trace gas concentrations. In the Weste...
AFI 05/01_02 - Trace gas depth profiles in seawater collected at the Rothera Time Series site (RaTS)
The 2005/6 field campaign was to determine alkyl nitrate and organo-halogen concentrations in the upper 100m of the water column at the RaTS site. Samples were collected from 0, 5, 10, 15, 25, 50 and 100 m at the RaTS site using a Niskin bo...
AFI 05/01_03 - Alkyl nitrates and organo-halogens in the Antarctic - Seasonal cycle of trace gas concentrations at the Rothera time series (RaTS) site
Seawater samples were collected from 15m at the RaTS site from Feb 2005 until March 2007. During summer 2005/2006 samples were analysed using a GC-MS set up in the Bonner laboratory. At all other times samples were stored on solid sorbents ...
AFI 05/01_04 - Data from laboratory studies assessing the environmental factors which control photochemical alkyl nitrate production in seawater
Assessment of the environmental factors controlling alkyl nitrate production in water....
AFI 05/03 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The overall aim is to establish the timing and rate of thinning of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) from its maximum extent in an area inland of the Weddell Sea embayment. The specific objectives are (a) to date geomorphological evidence...
AFI 05/03_01 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Rock samples collected from the Ellsworth Mountains
200+ erratic and bedrock samples were collected from 11 sites along a 350km transect. Rocks include erratic boulders bedrock and sediments from altitudinal transects: sampling consisted of hammer and chisel, petrol-powered rock saw (in a fe...
AFI 05/03_02 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Powders, solutions and residues
For each of the rock samples analysed in the lab, a (variable) number of laboratory stages are created, including sawing and crushing residues, pure quartz separates, chemical solutions, and AMS targets.
...
AFI 05/03_03 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - AMS measurements
AMS measurements of cosmogenic isotopes from rock samples collected from the Ellsworth Mountains in 2005/2006. Pressed AMS targets will be measured at SUERC to yield exposure ages.
...
AFI 05/03_04 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Glacial geomorphological data
Glacial geomorphological data from the Ellsworth Mountains. Satellite imagery and aerial photography, ground truthing, surveying and GPS traverses were used for geomorphological mapping. Additional photographic and weathering data were use...
AFI 05/03_05 - Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea embayment - Ice sheet model runs
The GLIMMER ice sheet model will be used to simulate former ice sheet configurations in the Weddell Sea embayment, constrained against our new field data.
...
AFI 05/25_01 - Rock samples collected from central Alexander Island in the 2004/2005 field season.
Rock samples were collected from the northern LeMay Range, southern Douglas Range and the Lully Foothills of Alexander Island, Antarctica, and transferred to the Open University ("OU") via the British Antarctic Survey. Samples wer...
AFI 05/25_02 - Data for Ar-Ar and U-Pb isotopic dating, and petrography of rock samples collected from central Alexander Island
Ar-Ar dating of mylonites and detrital grains from central Alexander Island has been completed. U-Pb dating of detrital zircons has also been completed.
...
AFI 05/25_03 - Mapping and measurement of rock-types and structures collected from central Alexander Island
Key geological boundaries were identified and mapped onto aerial photos and satellite images.
...
AFI 05/32 - Dissolved organic nitrogen cycling in the Antarctic - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Antarctica is undergoing rapid climatic change, however, the implications of this change on ecosystem functioning remain unknown due to our lack of fundamental understanding of how these ecosystems work. Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) has...
AFI 05/32_01 - Soil and biological samples collected from Signy, Antarctica
To identify and quantify soil N species over a full growth season, small volumes of soil were removed from each sampling site 5 times during the field season and extracted in the laboratory. Bare soil at higher elevations, namely Observatio...
AFI 05/32_02 - Chemical analyses of soil samples collected from Signy, Antarctica
To identify and quantify soil N species over a full growth season, small volumes of soil were removed from each sampling site 5 times during the field season and extracted in the laboratory. Bare soil at higher elevations, namely Observatio...
AFI 05/32_03 - Soil and ambient air temperature collected from Signy, Antarctica
Soil temperature was monitored at 5 soil sampling times and ambient air temperature was monitored at each site throughout the field season. The sampling sites were: Bare soil at higher elevations, namely Observation Bluff, Factory Bluffs, J...
AFI 05/38 - The Antarctic Rothera radar (68 S) - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
We deployed a Skiymet meteor radar at Rothera (68S, 68W) in the Antarctic. Since February 2008 the radar has continuously measured the winds of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) at heights of ~ 80 - 100 km.
The radar has been ...
AFI 05/38_01 - The Antarctic Rothera radar (680S) - Winds, waves, tides and temperature data, mesosphere and lower thermosphere, VHF meteor radar, Rothera from 2005
The radar measured the winds, waves and tides of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere regions of the atmosphere. The radar routinely makes three types of measurement: 1. horizontal winds at heights of ~ 75 - 105 km from the drifting of met...
AFI 06/16 - Gene flow in Antarctic fishes: the role of oceanography and life history - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Transport of organisms by passive and active processes are fundamental to an understanding of colonization, evolution and biodiversity. The research examined the influence of oceanographic processes, bathymetry and life history variation on...
AFI 06/16_01 - Fish samples of Champsocephalus gunnari and Notothenia rossii from the Southern Ocean and morphometric data
Fish samples of Champsocephalus gunnari and Notothenia rossii (tissues preserved in ethanol, and otoliths) were collected from the Southern Ocean in the 2005/2006 field season. Morphometric data, including body length, mass, sex and reprod...
AFI 06/16_03 - Bottom topography of the Southern Ocean
Bottom topography (assessed by swath bathymetry) of the Southern Ocean collected in the 2005/2006 field season.
Bathymetry data was collected to assess its influence on dispersal and gene flow in two Antarctic fishes (Champsocephalus gu...
AFI 06/16_04 - Models of population structuring of the fish Champsocephalus gunnari and Notothenia rossii by oceanographic processes in the Southern Ocean
Life history and phylo-genetic/geographic data was combined with oceanographic data to test models of population structuring by oceanographic processes. The data are solely model outputs; specifically high-resolution flows for the South Geo...
AFI 06/25 - ADELIE - Antarctic drifter experiment - links to isobaths and ecosystems - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Recent data suggest that, contrary to prevailing views, there are pathways for near-surface currents around the Antarctic Peninsula to the west. If proved, these would be important for the retention and/or dispersal of krill larvae and othe...
AFI 06/25_01 - Underway data, including shipborne ADCP and navigation
Ship underway data, including navigation and shipborne ADCP. On the ship the position and observed data were interpolated to five-second records to merge the navigation with the underway data. These one-minute averages are averages over 1...
AFI 06/25_02 - CTD cast data, including LADCP
Nineteen full-depth CTD stations were occupied during cruise JR158, with one shallow test deployment....
AFI 06/25_03 - Ocean chemistry, including salinity, oxygen isotope and dissolved oxygen data
Dissolved oxygen concentrations were measured in discrete samples drawn from Niskin bottles
in order to calibrate the oxygen sensor on the CTD....
AFI 06/25_04 - Drifting buoy trajectories
Forty surface drifters (drogued at 15m) were deployed from the ship during the cruise, and were subsequently tracked by satellite. Four ARGO floats were also deployed. These were programmed to drift at a depth of 1000m. They were also pr...
AFI 06/33 - Did Antarctic octopuses colonise the deep sea?
The project used octopuses as model organisms to test the hypothesis that the Antarctic has acted as a centre for evolutionary innovation and radiation and as a source of taxa that have invaded the deep sea. It was thought likely that the d...
AFI 06/33_01 - Octopuses collected in the Southern Ocean
A large collection of tissue samples of our target groups from the deep sea and Antarctica have already been collected in previous cruises. The specific objective of this cruise (JCR147/145) was to target three species of octopus, Pareledon...
AFI 06/33_02 - Sequencing data from octopus samples collected in the Southern Ocean
A small tissue sample was taken from the mantle of each octopus and placed immediately in 70 - 80 % ethanol for preservation, in preparation for DNA extraction.
...
AFI 06/33_03 - Morphometric data from octopuses collected in the Southern Ocean
Every octopus was fixed in 5-6% formalin for 4 days, before being heat sealed in a plastic bag containing 4% formalin, and packed for morphometric studies.
...
AFI 07/02 - Geophysical exploration of a West Antarctic subglacial lake - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Antarctic subglacial lakes are liquid bodies of water located in topographical hollows beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica. They have attracted considerable scientific interest over the last ten years as they are expected to contain unique...
AFI 07/02_01 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - SEISMIC data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Seismic reflection data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instrument: Geometrics Geode, 48 channels, active source (explosives). Five single-fold lines. Line length between 7.7 and 2.5 km.
In addition, fold inc...
AFI 07/02_02 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - GPS data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Geographical Positioning System (GPS) data recorded in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instruments: Leica geodetic receivers. Four locations with continuous data records; all other locations (~70) occupied for short perio...
AFI 07/02_03 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - RADAR data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Radar data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instrument: the British Antarctic Survey''s (BAS) "DELORES 1" and "DELORES II" radar systems. Line length between 1 and 45 km.
Simultaneous GPS d...
AFI 07/02_04 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - METEOROLOGICAL data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Meteorological data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instrument: HOBO Weather Station (HOBO AWS) recording wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, solar radiation.
HOBO - registered trad...
AFI 07/02_05 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - ICE CORE samples, Antarctica, 2007/08
Shallow ice cores collected in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Three cores drilled to ~20 m depth. Two cores returned to UK for analysis. One core measured for density-depth in the field, then discarded.
One of the two cores retur...
AFI 07/02_06 - Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - ICE CORE data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Analysis of shallow ice cores collected in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Three cores drilled to ~20 m depth. Two cores returned to UK for analysis. One core measured for density-depth in the field, then discarded.
One of the two...
AFI 07/02_07 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - GRAVITY data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Gravity data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Instrument Lacoste & Romberg land gravity meter. Drift control primarily contained within the local area. Single, one-way tie to international gavity base station network...
AFI 07/02_08 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth 20-m - TEMPERATURE data, Antarctica, 2007/08
Measurement of temperature at the base of a 20-m deep borehole in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Resistance of two calibrated thermistors measured at the base of a 20 m deep borehole....
AFI 07/02_09 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - GPS data, Antarctica, 2008/09
Geographical Positioning System (GPS) data recorded in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth.
Recording instruments: Leica geodetic receivers.
Static data: Two locations with continuous data records; all other locations (~70) occupied...
AFI 07/02_10 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - RADAR data, Antarctica, 2008/09
Radar data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. Recording instrument: the British Antarctic Survey''s DELORES II radar system. Line length between 5 and 45 km. Simultaneous GPS data acquired with Leica geodetic GPS receiver ...
AFI 07/02_11 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - METEOROLOGICAL data, Antarctica, 2008/09
Meteorological data acquired in the region of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth.
Recording instrument: HOBO Weather Station (HOBO AWS) recording wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, solar radiation.
HOBO - registered tr...
AFI 07/03 - The age structure, origins and evolution of the Antarctic continent: new insights from detrital zircons - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
There are two strands to this project: one on the evolution of the Earth''s continental crust; the other on the geological evolution of the continental mass of Antarctica.
The continental crust is unique to the Earth. Recent developments...
AFI 07/03_01 - Geological samples
The (roughly) 10 week field campaign in 2007/2008 was used primarily for sample collection, with the rest of the time being used for mapping. All of the samples taken were of rocks that were found cropping out as nunataks. The investigati...
AFI 07/03_02 - Geological analyses
Geological analyses were conducted on the samples collected in Dronning-Maud Land during the 2007-2008 field work. Analyses included grain-size detemination, dating, whole rock and inclusion mineralogy, and geochemical analysis....
AFI 07/06 - Gene function in Antarctic krill: determining the role of clock-genes in synchronized behavioural patterns - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Antarctic krill form an important part of the oceanic ecosystem, acting as predators on plankton and as a food source for a variety of animals, including fish, sea birds and aquatic mammals. They migrate in a predictable manner each day, mo...
AFI 07/06_01 - Krill samples from the Southern Ocean and South Atlantic
The animals used for this project were caught during the Discovery 2010 cruise JR177 aboard the RRV James Clark Ross. Krill from two areas were used, one from around 60 South from the vicinity of the South Orkney Islands, and the second fro...
AFI 07/06_02 - Krill observational activity monitoring studies
Behaviour in many organisms (including krill) is strongly influenced by diurnal and seasonal changes in the environment. The evolution of circadian clocks has afforded organisms regulation of molecular and physiological rhythms, which in t...
AFI 07/06_03 - Krill genetic profiling
The purpose of these studies was to document the sequence of expression of genes over the moult cycle and the spatial-temporal expression of clock genes. Samples of krill derived from the Discovery 2010 summer cruise were processed and pre...
AFI 07/22 - Tidal dynamics of the Filchner-Ronne and Larsen C ice shelves from GPS observations and model assimilation - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Some of the largest ocean tides in the world are found along the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and southern extent of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf (FRIS), where the peak-to-peak tidal range can exceed 7m. At present, however, ou...
AFI 07/22_01 - Direct GPS measurements of the Weddell Sea ice shelves
During the 2007/08 summer field season 15 GPS receivers, recording position observations every 15 seconds for 24 hours a day, were successfully deployed over the Larsen C and Filchner-Ronne ice shelves. Six of these stations were uplifted a...
AFI 08/08 - Challenging the paradigm for plant-microbial resource partitioning in Antarctic ecosystems
The Antarctic is a uniquely important ''natural laboratory'' for examining ecosystem responses to climate change, and it is vital that the biological changes being observed there are properly understood. Its uniqueness comes from a combinat...
AFI 08/08_01 - Analysis of soil solution samples
In order to investigate the availability of peptides in the soils on Signy, the soil solution was sampled throughout the summer season, from mid November until early March. Soil solution samples were extracted under vacuum, with minimal dis...
AFI 08/08_02 - Soil temperature measurements
Soil solution samples were analysed (AFI 08/08_01) for different forms of nitrogen, including peptides. Concurrent measurements of soil temperature were carried out to determine the effect of temperature on the availability of different nit...
AFI 08/08_03 - Soil moisture measurements
Soil solution samples were analysed (AFI 08/08_01) for different forms of nitrogen, including peptides. Concurrent measurements of soil moisture were carried out to determine the effect of moisture on the availability of different nitrogen ...
AFI 08/08_04 - Isotopic labelling experiements
The field measurements (AFI 08/08_01 - AFI 08/08_03) were used to determine the availability of peptide nitrogen to photosynthetic organisms and soil microbes. In order to fully understand their significance in the Maritime Antarctic nitro...
AFI 08/14 - Antarctic deep water rates of export (ANDREX) - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Earth''s climate is changing, as it has done in the past. One of the great challenges faced by scientists today is to understand the causes and consequences of these changes. The way many scientists seek this understanding is by running...
AFI 08/14_01 - VMADCP data
VMADCP data collected during the ANDREX cruise....
AFI 08/14_07 - CTD oxygen samples
Oxygen samples collected during the ANDREX cruise....
AFI 08/14_08 - CTD nutrient samples
Nutrient samples collected on the ANDREX cruise....
AFI 08/14_12 - CTD CFC and SF6 samples
CFC and SF6 samples collected during the ANDREX cruise....
AFI 08/22 - The production of ozone depleting bromocarbon gases in near-shore Antarctic waters - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
There is a continual two-way exchange of chemicals between the sea-surface and the atmosphere. The bromocarbons are a group of volatile compounds that are produced naturally in seawater and carry the element bromine from the ocean reservoir...
AFI 08/22_01 - Bromocarbon time series from the RaTS site
Time-series data of CHBr3 and CH2Br2 concentrations collected at the Rothera Time-Series site....
AFI 08/22_02 - Algal incubations
Samples of seawater were collected from the upper watercolumn at the RaTS site and examined under the microscope. From these samples, single microalgal cells were isolated using a micro- or capillary pipette, washed in sterile seawater medi...
AFI 08/22_03 - Analyses of air samples collected at the RaTS Site
Air samples were collected in addition to the surface water samples, in order to allow for the calculation of the direction and rate of flux of the bromocarbons across the sea-to-air interface....
AFI 09/01 - Glacial history of the NE Antarctic Peninsula region over centennial to millennial timescales - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
When glaciers and ice sheets melt, they release large volumes of fresh water into the oceans. The release of fresh water into the oceans not only raises sea level but also influences deep sea circulation and therefore regional climate. On t...
AFI 09/01_01 - Geodatabase of terrestrial and marine dates
More well-constrained dates are urgently required in order to reduce the complexity visible in radiocarbon dates on the continental shelf. The geodatabase provides many conflicting ages, and improving chronological control on ice sheet retr...
AFI 09/01_02 - Glacier outlines (from 1988, 2001 and 2009)
Glacial outlines of the APIS (Antarctict Peninsula Ice Sheet) for 1988, 2001, 2009, (now incorporatated into the GLIMS project)...
AFI 09/01_03 - Cosmogenic nuclide age data from James Ross Island
Cosmogenic nuclide ages from James Ross Island...
AFI 09/01_04 - Geological samples
Geological samples from the 2010/11 field season...
AFI 10/04 - Orographic flows and the climate of the Antarctic Peninsula (OFCAP)
The Antarctic Peninsula is currently one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth. Large environmental changes have occurred as a result of this warming, most notably the retreat and rapid disintegration of some of the floating ice shel...
AFI 10/04_01 - Rothera radiosonde data
During episodes of westerly flow and potential Fohn events, routinely launched radiosondes at Rothera were complemented with additional launches, up to every three hours....
AFI 10/04_02 - Larsen camp radiosonde data
24 radiosondes were launched from a camp on the Larsen Ice Shelf during the period from 8th to 31st of January 2011. Launches were carried out when weather forecast models forecast Fohn conditions. Files contain start time, minutes and sec...
AFI 10/04_03 - Avery Plateau AWS data
The AWS on the Avery Plateau was deployed on January 10th 2011. The instruments are mounted on a 5m pole, of which the bottom 1m was dug in at time of erection. The wind vane was 4m above the snow surface, temperature and humidity sensor 3....
AFI 10/04_04 - Cole Peninsula AWS data
The AWS at Cole Peninsula was deployed on Jan 21st 2011. The instruments are mounted on a 5m pole, of which the bottom 1m was dug in at time of erection. The wind vane was 4m above the snow surface, temperature and humidity sensor 3.5m abov...
AFI 10/04_05 - MASIN flights (airborne measurements)
The MASIN Twin Otter aircraft (VP-FAZ) fitted with atmospheric instruments flew 22 flight, lasting in total around 78 hours, in support of the OFCAP project. During the intensive observing period from the 11th January to 5th February two st...
AFI 10/04_06 - Larsen camp SEB measurements
Comprehensive measurements to capture the surface energy balance (radiation, turbulence, snow temperature,...)
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AFI 10/04_07 - WRF at 4km resolution
Model output...
AFI 10/04_08 - WRF at 1km resolution
Model output...
AFI 10/04_09 - UM at 4km resolution
Model output...
AFI 10/04_10 - UM at 1.5km resolution
Model output...
Antarctic Microclimate Data
Automatic data loggers are often used to monitor environmental variables such as temperature (of air and soil), humidity, wind speed and radiation in microclimates where experimental or ecological studies are being carried out. Some loggers...
Antarctic Peninsula Lake Database
A geographic databse of lakes on the Antarctic Peninsula.
A database of lake locations and subsiduary information. Fields include:
Lake unique id,
Name,
location,
imager reference/how identified,
locality,
size (longest axis),
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Antarctic Plant Database (Database of the BAS Herbarium)
This database contains information on the herbarium specimens held in the herbarium of the British Antarctic Survey (international code AAS) as well as information about specimens collected in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic and held in oth...
Antarctic Snow Accumulation Map and Data
The map is derived from a compilation of field measurements. Satellite observations from AMSR-E and AVHRR instruments are used to guide the interpolation. The effective resolution of the map is approximately 100 km. The estimates of root me...
Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP)
During the International Polar Year 2007-1009, the seven nation Antarctica''s Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) expedition aquired a detailed image of the ice sheet bed deep in the interior of East Antarctica. Airborne geophysical methods were use...
Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) - Gravity
During the International Polar Year 2007-1009, the seven nation Antarctica''s Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) expedition aquired a detailed image of the ice sheet bed deep in the interior of East Antarctica. Airborne geophysical methods were use...
Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) - Magnetics
During the International Polar Year 2007-1009, the seven nation Antarctica''s Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) expedition aquired a detailed image of the ice sheet bed deep in the interior of East Antarctica. Airborne geophysical methods were use...
Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) - Radio Echo Sounding
During the International Polar Year 2007-1009, the seven nation Antarctica''s Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) expedition aquired a detailed image of the ice sheet bed deep in the interior of East Antarctica. Airborne geophysical methods were use...
BAS Geological Data - Overview
The British Antarctic Survey holds one of the most extensive collections of Antarctic rocks and fossils anywhere in the world. These are predominately from the Antarctic Peninsula region and Scotia Arc, although there is also important mat...
BAS Geological Data - Type and Figured Fossil Collection
The palaeontology collection at the British Antarctic Survey is a unique and internationally important collection of specimens sourced predominantly from the Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc. The collection was started in the 1940s and co...
BEDMAP ice-thickness database
Data describing the thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet collected on surveys undertaken over the past 50 years have been brought together into a single database. These data have allowed the compilation of a suite of seamless digital topogr...
BIOFLAME-BIOPEARL: BIOdiversity dynamics: Phylogeography, Evolution And Radiation of Life
Geological and biological sampling associated with recolonisation histories.
BIOFLAME will study the DNA "fingerprints" of biological evolution to trace the way species adapt to environmental extremes . We will use state-of-the...
BIOFLAME-BIOREACH: BIOlogical Responses to Extreme Antarctic Conditions and Hyper-extremes
BIOFLAME will study the DNA "fingerprints" of biological evolution to trace the way species adapt to environmental extremes . We will use state-of-the-art genomics technology to investigate the DNA of individuals, populations, nat...
Biologically Relevant Radiation (Bentham spectroradiometer data, Rothera)
Biologically-relevant radiation has been recorded since February 1997 using a Bentham spectroradiometer at Rothera.
The Bentham spectroradiometer is sited on the roof of the Bonner Laboratory at Rothera. It measures spectral global irradia...
CACHE PEP-P: James Ross Island Ice Cap Drilling - PROJECT
A team of eight scientists will visit James Ross Island to recover the first complete ice core climate record from the northern Antarctic Peninsula spanning for the Holocene (which began over 10,000 years ago and continues today) to help sh...
CACHE-CEFAC: Chemical Exchange and Feedbacks between the Atmosphere and Cryosphere
To determine the chemical exchanges that take place between ice and the atmosphere, and to estimate how the size of the cryosphere would affect atmospheric chemistry in the present day, under past glacial conditions, and in a future warmer ...
CACHE-DRAM: DRivers and AMplifiers of late Quaternary climate change
Ice core records provide highly detailed records of how different components of the climate system have behaved in the past. DRAM will make use of these and other data to pin down the main forcings and feedbacks that controlled climate over...
CACHE-PEP: Natural climate variability - extending the Americas Pole-Equator-Pole palaeoclimate transect through the Antarctic Peninsula to the Pole
To determine how the climate of the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene (last 10,000 years) is related to global scale patterns and trends, in order to understand the significance of current environmental changes in the region
Objectiv...
DISCOVERY-CEMI: Circumpolar Ecosystems; Modelling and Integration
DISCOVERY 2010 will investigate and describe the response of an ocean ecosystem to climate variability, climate change and commercial exploitation. The programme builds on past studies by BAS on the detailed nature of the South Georgia mari...
DISCOVERY-FLEXICON: FLEXIbility and CONstraints in life histories
FLEXICON is investigating the life-cycles of some of the world''s most durable and abundant organisms that are vital to the Earth''s systems. Marine organism in the Southern Ocean must endure one of the most extreme environments on the plan...
DISCOVERY-FOOD-WEBS: Scotia Sea FOOD-WEBS
Ocean food webs modify the efficiency with which CO2 is absorbed from the atmosphere into the sea, fixed by phytoplankton in the surface layers and then transported to the ocean interior. This so-called "biological pump" buffers a...
DISCOVERY-OEM: Ocean Ecosystems and Management
Maintaining long-term food security in a changing environment is one of the greatest challenges to the sustainable exploitation of the Earth System, including its oceans. The well publicised collapses of commercial fish stocks are one of th...
Daily base seal count at Signy Island
The number of Fur and Elephant seals around the base on Signy Island have been counted daily between January and March since 1992. Details of the area counted are given in the 1992 Seal Mammal report (archive number: H/1992/NM3)....
GEACEP-ISODYN: Icehouse Earth: Stability Or DYNamism?
GEACEP will investigate the relationship between the evolution of Antarctic ice and the changing global environment over the last ~30 million years (My). We will do so through collecting and combining geological data and developing computer...
GRADES-IMAGE: Inverse Modelling of Antarctica and Global Eustasy
GRADES will investigate the state and stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. A key objective is to improve predictions of Antarcticas contribution to global mean sea level rise.
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may be unstable because...
GRADES-QWAD: Quaternary West Antarctic Deglaciations
Current predictions of sea level rise do not correctly quantify contributions from Antarctica. Some sectors of the Antarctic ice sheet are showing considerable rates of change; are these changes a forerunner of imminent ice-sheet collapse? ...
GRADES-TIGRIS: TargetIng Glacial Retreat and Ice-stream Systems
GRADES will investigate the state and stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. A key objective is to improve predictions of Antarctica''s contribution to global mean sea level rise.
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may be unstable becaus...
IPY-013 - Sea level and tidal sciences in the polar oceans - Ocean level data - poles, continuous measurements
As part of PSMSL (Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level) and GLOSS (Global Sea Level Observing System) activities, there are tide gauges in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic at Faraday/Vernadsky (Ukraine station); BAS stations at Signy, Rother...
IPY-014 - Stable oxygen isotope and dissolved barium samples from Arctic Synoptic Basin-wide Oceanography (ASBO) project
These are samples of dissolved barium and stable isotopes of oxygen (d-18O), taken on two cruises in the summers of 2007 and 2008, in collaboration between the NERC-funded Arctic Synoptic Basin-wide Oceanography (ASBO) IPY consortium and th...
IPY-092 - ICED/SOSA/CASO - Hydrographic section at latitude 24, March-April 2009
Data collected during the International Polar Year under the ICED (Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics) project.
Complete hydrographic section from South America to Africa at latitude 24S, with physical, chemical, biological and m...
IPY-100 - Polar Field Stations and IPY History: Culture, Heritage, Governance (1882-Present)
Field stations have been through one of the most salient and tangible features of IPYs since 1882-83 and through to the coming IPY 2007-08. Field stations, and the scientific expeditions that created them and used them as vantage points, ar...
IPY-246_01 - ABACUS - Plant Growth and Allocation
The aim of WP1 is to understand how plant growth and C allocation drive C dynamics at the community level and how this relates to plant N status and site fertility.It therefore focuses on testing H1 (plant-soil interactions) and will also p...
IPY-246_02 - ABACUS - Soil Processes
One of the key uncertainties in the interpretation of landscape scale C flux measurements is the contribution of CO2 released from soils to the observed net ecosystem flux (Shaver et al. 1992; Boone et al. 1998; Liski et al. 1999; Hobbie et...
IPY-246_03 - ABACUS - Soil/Plant Flux Measurements
We will provide to WP7 high temporal resolution of C exchange of the key tundra-dwarf-shrub and forest understorey communities through diurnal cycles at different times of year, coupled with, where relevant, concomitant measurements of CO2 ...
IPY-246_04 - ABACUS - Tower Flux Measurements
We will make measurements of the fluxes of energy, water and CO2 from a small number of distinct arctic surface types using the Eddy Correlation (EC) method. These measurements provide estimates across a "footprint"of a few hundre...
IPY-246_05 - ABACUS - Aircraft Fluxes and Remote Sensing
The aircraft will be used in support of hypotheses 2, 3, 6 and 7. The system will produce area-averaged fluxes of CO2, CH4, water vapour and heat; it will also produce maps of the variability in the main drivers of land-atmosphere exchange ...
IPY-246_06 - ABACUS - Satellite Remote Sensing and Geostatistics
WP6 will provide spatial observations (with errors) for assimilation into the ecosystem models of WP7. Provision of spatiotemporal data will be key to WP7 and addressing hypotheses H2, H3 and H7. The main types of EO data that will be used ...
IPY-264_07 - ABACUS - Modelling and Synthesis
The aim of the modelling WP is to provide the means to extrapolate and scale information to test H7 by determining (1) whether flux tower measurements are consistent with multiple chamber measurements gathered within the footprint; and (2) ...
IPY-372 - Polarview information products
Polar View delivers a range of environmental information services for the polar regions derived primarily from satellite imagery and data. The project aims to coordinate delivery of these information products direct to users. Services inclu...
IPY-451 - Antarctic Touring Exhibition, European venues, 2007-2012
The Natural History Museum, in association with British Antarctic Survey, developed a touring exhibition which launched at the NHM in 2007 and is now travelling to European venues. The exhibition, developed to support the educational and pu...
IPY-460 - Cape Farewell, science, education and culture of climate change
In September-October 2007 Cape Farewell is planning two expeditions in the High Arctic.
The first expedition is part of Cape Farewell''s Education Programme for 2007-2009. Setting off on September 16th a youth team of 12 from schools thr...
List of non-lichenized fungi from the Antarctic region
This list provides a check-list of the non-lichenized fungi reported from Antarctica that have been published in the literature or deposited in major culture collections. The list includes all macrofungi, filamentous forms and yeasts, toge...
Long-Term Monitoring of Signy Lake Chemistry by BAS 1963-2004
The long term monitoring of water chemistry in Signy Island lakes is unique in polar limnology, in its duration (30+ years), detail, and range of sites. It details seasonal patterns of snow and ice cover, inorganic nutrient status and chlor...
Magnetometer data from 2001 - LPM network
The British Antarctic Survey holds magnetic data measuring the plasmaspheric mass loading on magnetic field lines in Antarctica. The network of Low Power Magnetometer instruments consists of permanent and temporary sites. The data is collec...
Monthly mean temperature,pressure and wind speed data from a selection Antarctic stations and automatic weather stations for use in climatic research
The READER Project
READER (REference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research) is a project of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR http://www.scar.org/) and has the goal of creating a high quality, long term dataset of...
NC-NCP: Natural Complexity Project
COMPLEXITY will apply new mathematical methods to data sets drawn from across the GSAC programme to reveal previously hidden underlying patterns and laws, and to develop new mathematical models to explain them. This is known as the field of...
SEC-HOLISTIC: HOlistic Links between the Ionosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere and their Influence on Climate
SEC will describe and quantify the key mechanisms by which variations in the solar wind and solar high-energy radiation affect the Earth''s atmosphere, to determine whether or not these have a significant effect on the Earth''s climate syst...
SEC-WARP: Whole Atmosphere consequences of Radiation-belt Processes
SEC will describe and quantify the key mechanisms by which variations in the solar wind and solar high-energy radiation affect the Earth''s atmosphere, to determine whether or not these have a significant effect on the Earth''s climate syst...
SOMBASE - Southern Ocean Mollusc Database
Understanding where organisms live and why they live there is the key aim of ecology. SOMBASE is a tool for looking at marine molluscs in the seas around Antarctica. Using a database and the latest mapping technology it is possible to displ...
Seal count data at Signy Island
The total number of seals on Signy Island is counted in February each year. The island is divided into 6 areas, sub-divided into 105 zones and the number of Antarctic Fur seals, Elephant seals, Weddell seals and other seal species in each z...
South Georgia Bathymetric Dataset grid
Bathymetric grid at 150m resolution of the area surrounding South Georgia. Projected in LCC co-ordinates saved in esri grid format. Continuous dataset constructed form a variety of sources....
Targeting Glacial Retreat and Ice Stream Systems (TIGRIS)
Predicting the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to sea level rise is one of the biggest current challenges in glaciology. Through integrated fieldwork and modelling, TIGRIS is making a number of specific advances in understanding cur...
VELOX
Data from the VELOX (VLF/ELF Logger Experiment) at Halley. Continuous VLF/ELF radio wave power, polarisation, arrival bearing, maximum/ minimum, and impulse counts, in 10 frequency bands from 300 Hz to 10 kHz with a 1 s time resolution.
Fo...
Vector Topographic Data of Antarctica - The Antarctic Digital Database
The Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) is the premier source of vector topographic data for Antarctica. First published on CD-ROM in 1993, the current version is available for download from http://www.add.scar.org/. The data are supplied in ...
