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Mass Balance of the Collins Ice Cap on King George Island in West Antarctica

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

Mass balance observations were carried out during the 1991/1992 Chinese Antarctica Expedition, when 64 stakes and 15 snow pits were established on Little Dome.

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Nine sets of simultaneous observations were conducted over the course of a full year. Combined with ice core data, the mass balance pattern of the ice cap can be obtained, providing estimates to mass balance variations over the past 20 years.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 13 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC1214608382-SCIOPS9 d agoJSON v1
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access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:coring-devicessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:ice-augerssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/glaciers-ice-sheets/ablation-zones-accumulation-zonessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/glaciers-ice-sheets/glacier-mass-balance-ice-sheet-mass-balancesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/glaciers-ice-sheets/glacierssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/cryosphere/snow-ice/ice-growth-meltsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:ground-based-observationssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
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