Two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between Dome C - Vostok - Dome A
Chinese scientists will start to drill a deep ice core at Kunlun station near Dome A in the near future. Recent work has predicted that Dome A is a location where ice older than 1 million years can be found. We model flow, temperature and the age of the ice by applying a three-dimensional, thermomec...
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.836120 2023-05-15T16:39:19+02:00 Two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between Dome C - Vostok - Dome A Sun, Bo Moore, John C Zwinger, Thomas Zhao, Liyun Steinhage, Daniel Tang, Xueyuan Zhang, Dong Cui, Xiangbin Martín, Carlos MEDIAN LATITUDE: -78.157665 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: 103.697581 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: -80.735703 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 77.099899 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: -75.059700 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 123.713402 * DATE/TIME START: 2008-01-20T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2008-01-20T00:00:00 2014-09-22 application/zip, 2 datasets https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836120 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836120 en eng PANGAEA https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836120 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836120 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Supplement to: Sun, Bo; Moore, John C; Zwinger, Thomas; Zhao, Liyun; Steinhage, Daniel; Tang, Xueyuan; Zhang, Dong; Cui, Xiangbin; Martín, Carlos (2014): How old is the ice beneath Dome A, Antarctica? The Cryosphere, 8(3), 1121-1128, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-1121-2014 AWI_Glac Glaciology @ AWI Dataset 2014 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836120 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-1121-2014 2023-01-20T07:33:20Z Chinese scientists will start to drill a deep ice core at Kunlun station near Dome A in the near future. Recent work has predicted that Dome A is a location where ice older than 1 million years can be found. We model flow, temperature and the age of the ice by applying a three-dimensional, thermomechanically coupled full-Stokes model to a 70 × 70 km**2 domain around Kunlun station, using isotropic non-linear rheology and different prescribed anisotropic ice fabrics that vary the evolution from isotropic to single maximum at 1/3 or 2/3 depths. The variation in fabric is about as important as the uncertainties in geothermal heat flux in determining the vertical advection which in consequence controls both the basal temperature and the age profile. We find strongly variable basal ages across the domain since the ice varies greatly in thickness, and any basal melting effectively removes very old ice in the deepest parts of the subglacial valleys. Comparison with dated radar isochrones in the upper one third of the ice sheet cannot sufficiently constrain the age of the deeper ice, with uncertainties as large as 500 000 years in the basal age. We also assess basal age and thermal state sensitivities to geothermal heat flux and surface conditions. Despite expectations of modest changes in surface height over a glacial cycle at Dome A, even small variations in the evolution of surface conditions cause large variation in basal conditions, which is consistent with basal accretion features seen in radar surveys. Dataset ice core Ice Sheet The Cryosphere PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science ENVELOPE(77.099899,123.713402,-75.059700,-80.735703) |
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Chinese scientists will start to drill a deep ice core at Kunlun station near Dome A in the near future. Recent work has predicted that Dome A is a location where ice older than 1 million years can be found. We model flow, temperature and the age of the ice by applying a three-dimensional, thermomechanically coupled full-Stokes model to a 70 × 70 km**2 domain around Kunlun station, using isotropic non-linear rheology and different prescribed anisotropic ice fabrics that vary the evolution from isotropic to single maximum at 1/3 or 2/3 depths. The variation in fabric is about as important as the uncertainties in geothermal heat flux in determining the vertical advection which in consequence controls both the basal temperature and the age profile. We find strongly variable basal ages across the domain since the ice varies greatly in thickness, and any basal melting effectively removes very old ice in the deepest parts of the subglacial valleys. Comparison with dated radar isochrones in the upper one third of the ice sheet cannot sufficiently constrain the age of the deeper ice, with uncertainties as large as 500 000 years in the basal age. We also assess basal age and thermal state sensitivities to geothermal heat flux and surface conditions. Despite expectations of modest changes in surface height over a glacial cycle at Dome A, even small variations in the evolution of surface conditions cause large variation in basal conditions, which is consistent with basal accretion features seen in radar surveys. |
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Sun, Bo Moore, John C Zwinger, Thomas Zhao, Liyun Steinhage, Daniel Tang, Xueyuan Zhang, Dong Cui, Xiangbin Martín, Carlos |
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Sun, Bo Moore, John C Zwinger, Thomas Zhao, Liyun Steinhage, Daniel Tang, Xueyuan Zhang, Dong Cui, Xiangbin Martín, Carlos |
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Two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between Dome C - Vostok - Dome A |
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Two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between Dome C - Vostok - Dome A |
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Two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between Dome C - Vostok - Dome A |
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Two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between Dome C - Vostok - Dome A |
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Two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between Dome C - Vostok - Dome A |
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two-way traveltimes of internal layers and ice thickness between dome c - vostok - dome a |
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MEDIAN LATITUDE: -78.157665 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: 103.697581 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: -80.735703 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 77.099899 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: -75.059700 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 123.713402 * DATE/TIME START: 2008-01-20T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2008-01-20T00:00:00 |
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Supplement to: Sun, Bo; Moore, John C; Zwinger, Thomas; Zhao, Liyun; Steinhage, Daniel; Tang, Xueyuan; Zhang, Dong; Cui, Xiangbin; Martín, Carlos (2014): How old is the ice beneath Dome A, Antarctica? The Cryosphere, 8(3), 1121-1128, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-1121-2014 |
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