Physical Properties of the US ITASE Firn and Ice Cores from South Pole to Taylor Dome

• Main Authors: Meese, Debra A., Baker, Ian
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2010
• Subjects: Snow pits; Ice cores; Firn; Climate change; Climate; South Pole; Taylor Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; South pole
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/orsp_reports/379; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=orsp_reports

This award supports a project for physical properties research on snow pits and firn/ice cores with specific objectives that include stratigraphic analysis including determination of accumulation rates, annual layers, depth hoar, ice and wind crusts and rates of grain growth with depth. Studies of f...