Continuous GPS (static) Data from the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Macayeal, Douglas R., Brunt, Kelly, King, Matthew
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2008
• Subjects: Global Positioning Systems (GPS); Antarctic Glaciology; Geodesy; Geology/Geophysics - Other; Glaciology; Antarctica; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Southern Ocean; Cryosphere; Ross Ice Shelf; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/609347

Abstract: In October 2005, three geodetic GPS receivers were deployed on the Ross Ice Shelf near the ice front to observe short-term fluctuations in ice-shelf velocity associated with tidal forcing and other phenomena. Two stations were placed on either side of a large rift that is expected to eventually create the next iceberg to calve from the Ross Ice Shelf (called "Nascent Iceberg"). One station was established at a location near station R13, occupied in 1979 during the RIGGS project (Thomas et al., 1984), to determine if the near-ice-front part of the Ross Ice Shelf has significantly changed its long-term flow since the late 1970s.