Are the Dry Valleys Getting Wetter? A Preliminary Assessment of Wetness Across the McMurdo Dry Valleys Landscape

• Main Author: Gooseff, Michael N
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2014
• Subjects: Soil Moisture; Antarctic Earth Sciences; Climate; Radar; Antarctica; Critical Zone; Cryosphere; Dry Valleys; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; Austral; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600131

Abstract: Intellectual Merit: Until recently, wetted soils in the Dry Valleys were generally only found adjacent to streams and lakes. Since the warm austral summer of 2002, numerous "wet spots" have been observed far from shorelines on relatively flat valley floor locations and as downslo...