Polar Services - Antarctic - Meta-Data Summaries (2010/11 Season) - C-520 Anandakrishnan

Data Set Name:
C520 WISSARD 2010-11

Investigator:
PI: Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dr. Helen Fricker, Co-PI
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
POC: Dr. Helen Fricker / Huw Horgan
Email: hafrickerucsd.edu

Data Type:
Static GPS

Dates:
11/20/2010 - 2/12/2011

Location:
Name: Whillans Ice Stream
Coordinates: 82 50S 153 50W
Radius: 100 km

Data Center:
Name: UNAVCO
URL: www.unavco.org
Email: archive-gpsunavco.org
Phone: 303-381-7500

Summary: C-520 WISSARD represents a large cooperative scientific study along the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) with particular interest in the glacial behavior of the Whillans Ice Stream. UNAVCO supported two aspects of this event. One aspect was a continuation of the effort first started by Dr. Slawek Tulaczyk (I-345)and then taken up by Dr. Helen Fricker involving a broad network of continuous GPS stations set up on the Whillans. This season, 13 new sites were added to the network, including one with Iridium comms. This brought the total number of continuous stations on the Whillands Ice Stream to 23, including 3 with Iridium comms.

In another aspect of the WISSARD project, Dr. Huw Horgan returned to study the flow dynamics of the lower Whillans Ice Stream. UNAVCO supplied 10 static GPS receivers designed to run continuously through the summer deployment.

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