Siple Dome Cores Electrical Measurement Data

• Main Author: Taylor, Kendrick C.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2003
• Subjects: Electrical Conductivity; Antarctic Glaciology; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Physical Properties; Antarctica; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Cryosphere; Siple Dome; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; Siple; Siple Coast; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/609133

Abstract: This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica. Taylor measured the electrical conductivity (ECM) and Complex Conductivity (CC), a measure of the total ions in the ice, in the main Siple Dome ice core. Measurements were taken along the core from a depth of 0 m to 800 m. The project also analyzed shallower cores for ECM and dielectric properties (DEP). (DEP is also a measure of the total ions in the ice, but with lower spatial resolution than the CC.) Albedo measurements where made on the shallow cores and the main core to a depth of 391 m. The data set includes images showing the electrical conductivity of a vertical section of the core.