NSIDC-0375
WAIS Divide Ice Core Images, Antarctica
Kenneth C. McGwire
WAIS Divide Ice Core Images, Antarctica
2010-02-10
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0375.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5348H8T
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Kenneth
Christian
McGwire
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EARTH SCIENCE
Paleoclimate
Ice Core Records
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Visible Wavelengths
Visible Imagery
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Antarctica
Ice Core
Ice Core Data
Ice Cores
WAIS
West Antarctica
CAMERAS
FIELD INVESTIGATION
FIELD SURVEYS
LABORATORY
2006-01-01
2007-12-30
complete
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CONTINENT
ANTARCTICA
WAISCORES
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores
English
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NSIDC_AGDC
NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center
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FTP
16 GB
TIFF
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Sample Location Map
McGwire, K. C., G. M. Hargreaves, R. B. Alley, T. J. Popp, D. B. Reusch, M. K. Spencer, K. C. Taylor. 2008. An integrated system for optical imaging of ice cores. Cold Regions Science and Technology, Volume 53, Issue 2, Pages 216-228. McGwire, K.C., J.R. McConnell, R.B. Alley, J.R. Banta, G.M. Hargreaves, and K.C. Taylor. 2008. Dating Annual Layers of a Shallow Antarctic Ice Core with an Optical Scanner. Journal of Glaciology 54(188):831-838.
This data set is comprised of optical images of ice core sections, acquired with a digital line-scan camera in the cold room facility at the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL). Ice core sections are archival cuts which have rough-out rounds of ice with a single plane cut along one side. Ice sections were illuminated with fiber optic light guides connected to a 1000 watt (W) xenon light source. Original scan resolution varies from about 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm, and is documented in the metadata for each image. Images are in uncompressed Tagged Image File (.tif) form, with resolutions of 1.0 mm and 0.1 mm. Depth of image in the ice core is documented in the metadata files for each image.
Data are available via FTP as .tif image files. Supporting information is available as ASCII text files (.txt), and other file formats readable with a freely available image processing program, IceImageJ.
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CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2010-02-10
2013-03-18
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