Metadata details
ASAC_1164_AM01b
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- Citation
- Allison, I. and Craven, M. (2004) Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2003-04 - AM01b, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/ASAC_1164_AM01b, Accessed: 2026-05-21
- Title
- Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2003-04 - AM01b
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- Created Date
- 2004-10-04
- Revision Date
- 2019-03-13
- Parent record
- ASAC_1164
- Child record
- ASAC_1164_AM01b_Aquadopp
ASAC_1164_AM01b_CTD
ASAC_1164_AM01b_GPS
ASAC_1164_AM01b_Other
ASAC_1164_AM01b_video
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
AM01b borehole drilled mid-December 2003.
Profiling measurements conducted over a period of a few days.
Video recording of borehole walls and sea floor benthos.
Sediment sample collected from sea floor.
No long term monitoring instruments installed.
AM01b borehole was drilled within a few hundred metres of where the ice shelf had carried the original AM01 borehole to, in the intervening 2 years. As the AM01 borehole had a mooring suite of instruments, none were emplaced in the AM01b borehole.
Quality
See Readme files in the download files of the child metadata records for details of data quality and equipment down-time.
Note - depths provided in spatial coverage are referenced back to sea level.
The minimum depth of 65 metres asl refers to the height of the ice surface.
Access
See the child records for access to the data.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2003-12-19 - Stop date: 2003-12-29
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ICE SHEETS
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT COMPOSITION
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENTATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > THERMOCLINE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW/ICE CHEMISTRY
Additional Keywords
- AMERY ICE SHELF
- BATHYMETRY
- AMISOR
- HOT WATER DRILL
- ICE THICKNESS
- ICE CORES
- SALINITY
- SEDIMENTS
- TEMPERATURE
- VELOCITY
- VIDEO FOOTAGE
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
Instruments
- CAMERAS
Researchers
- allison, ian (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- craven, mike (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_1164_AM01b when using these data.
