Optical properties of deep glacial ice at the South Pole

• Main Authors: Ackermann, Markus, Bertrand, Daniel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Physique des particules élémentaires; Antarctic; Broad Peak; South Pole; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/118283; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/118283/4/00d833ce-705d-4ffb-ba26-1bc3927daf7b.txt

We have remotely mapped optical scattering and absorption in glacial ice at the South Pole for wavelengths between 313 and 560 nm and depths between 1100 and 2350 m. We used pulsed and continuous light sources embedded with the AMANDA neutrino telescope, an array of more than six hundred photomultip...