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Dated radar stratigraphy between Dome A and South Pole, East Antarctica, derived from AGAP North PASIN (2008-2009) and PolarGAP PASIN2 (2015-2016) surveys

This dataset contains the position and depth (ice thickness) of three spatially-extensive Internal Reflecting Horizons (IRHs) mapped from ice-penetrating radar data acquired with the British Antarctic Survey''s PASIN and PASIN2 ice radar systems across central East Antarctica. The dataset extends geographically from Dome A to South Pole. Using previous dated IRHs from Winter et al (2019), an independent validation of IRH ages from the South Pole ice-core chronology and a 1-D steady-state model, we assigned ages to our three IRHs: (H1) 38.5 +/- 2.2 ka, (H2) 90.4 +/- 3.57, and (H3) 161.9 +/- 6.76 ka.

This study was motivated by the AntArchitecture Action Group of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR). The project was supported by the National Environmental Research Council (NERC)-funded ONE Planet Doctoral Training Partnership (NE/S007512/1), hosted jointly by Newcastle and Northumbria Universities. The authors thank the BAS science and logistics teams for acquiring both the AGAP PASIN and PolarGAP PASIN2 data which is fully available on the Polar Airborne Geophysics Data Portal of the UK Polar Data Center (https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/nagdp/). BedMachine (version 2) data are available at https://doi.org/10.5067/E1QL9HFQ7A8M.

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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01809
Date (Publication)
2023-12-18
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01809
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre - Sanderson, R., Ross, N., Winter, K., Bingham, R., Callard, L., Jordan, T., & Young, D.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
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Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Depth/Thickness
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Dome A
  • East Antarctica
  • Englacial layering
  • Ice Penetrating Radar
  • South Pole
Use limitation

This data are covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data in any publication as follows:

DATA REFERENCE

Sanderson, R., Ross, N., Winter, K., Bingham, R., Callard, L., Jordan, T., & Young, D. (2023). Dated radar stratigraphy between Dome A and South Pole, East Antarctica, derived from AGAP North PASIN (2008-2009) and PolarGAP PASIN2 (2015-2016) surveys (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/cfafb639-991a-422f-9caa-7793c195d316

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2. The user recognizes the limitations of data. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

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This data are covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data in any publication as follows:

DATA REFERENCE

Sanderson, R., Ross, N., Winter, K., Bingham, R., Callard, L., Jordan, T., & Young, D. (2023). Dated radar stratigraphy between Dome A and South Pole, East Antarctica, derived from AGAP North PASIN (2008-2009) and PolarGAP PASIN2 (2015-2016) surveys (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/cfafb639-991a-422f-9caa-7793c195d316

LITERATURE REFERENCE

Coming soon

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
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Begin date
2015-12-07
End date
2016-01-19
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
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  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
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INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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Statement
Uncertainties in IRH depths can be found in the Lineage section and in the paper. Where the PASIN radar did not sound the full ice thickness (i.e. there was no identifiable reflection from the ice base), we used BedMachine v2 to constrain full ice thickness (i.e. from surface to ice base), and subsequently ''fractional depth'' of the IRHs.
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GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01809 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2023-12-18
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01809
 
 

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