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Hydrostatic pressure below Ross Ice Shelf from 2015-01-16 to 2015-03-16 (NCEI Accession 0209188)

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

A pressure sensor was suspended by a steel cable through a borehole in the Ross Ice Shelf into the ocean cavity.

Description

The sensor hung 761 m from the ice surface, roughly mid-depth in the 10-m-thick ocean cavity, within a water mass of almost constant potential density when it was sampled in January 2015. The site is located within a grounding zone, or flexure zone, wherein the ice shelf elevation does not respond hydrostatically to variations in ocean pressure.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NASA Earthdata CMRC2089378539-NOAA_NCEI14 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:pressure-sensorssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-pressure/water-pressuresource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-providedsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0