WAIS Divide Ice Core Images, Antarctica

Data Contributors MCGWIRE, KENNETH CHRISTIAN Parameters ICE CORE RECORDS VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS > VISIBLE IMAGERY Instruments CAMERAS

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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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The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.

Kenneth C. McGwire. 2010. WAIS Divide Ice Core Images, Antarctica. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5348H8T.

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