Snow Density, Hardness and Temperature, Amery Ice Shelf 1964

• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; SNOW/ICE; EARTH SCIENCE; CRYOSPHERE; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW STRATIGRAPHY; SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE; Amery Ice Shelf; Log books; TEMPERATURE LOGGERS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Amery; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/snow-density-hardness-shelf-1964/699268; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ais_snow_1964; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

The Australian Antarctic Division carried out a traverse to the Amery Ice Shelf in the summer of 1964. Numerous snow pits were dug along the traverse, and studies carried out to examine the snow in the area. Information on the the snow density, hardness, stratigraphy and snow temperature were record...