Metadata details

Heard_Island_glacier_fluctuations_2012-2014

All scientific data collected by the Australian Antarctic program (AAp) are eventually described in the Catalogue of Australian Antarctic and Subantarctic Metadata (CAASM). CAASM can be used to search through AAp data descriptions, and it also provides links to access publicly available datasets, which can either be immediately downloaded or obtained from the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC).

Citation
Donoghue, S. and Harris, U. (2021) Fluctuations of Heard Island Glaciers between 1947-2014, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/Heard_Island_glacier_fluctuations_2012-2014, Accessed: 2026-05-01
Title
Fluctuations of Heard Island Glaciers between 1947-2014
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date
2021-09-07
Revision Date
2021-10-06
Expected Date of Data Release
2021-10-06
Data Version
1
Parent record
None

Datasets and documents

    Related links

    Description

    Heard Island glacier have been of interest since the island was first occupied. The fluctuations of these glaciers have previously been discussed by Budd and Stephenson (1970), Allison and Keage (1986), Budd (2000), Ruddell (2006), Donoghue (2009), and Cogley et al (2014). This is an initial report on the changes of Brown and Stephenson glaciers with a more detailed report to follow once orthorectified satellite images become available for analysis.
    This report examines two newly acquired sets of satellite images from 2012 and 2014. What is unique about these images is that in both sequences the images are near cloud free and include the entire island. This is unusual for this persistently cloud covered, mountainous island located in the ‘Furious Fifties’. These images provide the first chance to complete a full inventory of the island's glaciers over both years from a single day - 2 February in 2012 and 6 February in 2014. Complete satellite inventories of the island have only previously been attempted in 1988 and 2008 - in each case this required the use of images over several years and from different sources to capture the entire island. This report also includes an inventory of additional data sets and data resources that have been used to calculate the length and areas of heard Island between 1947 and 2014.

    Show more...

    Purpose

    To use of high resolution satellite images for estimating the area and volume of glaciers on Heard Island.

    Quality

    Satellite images used were not orthorectified in time for the 2017 State of Environment report instead high resolution thumbnails available from © DigitalGlobe, Inc (www.digitialglobe.com) were used to estimate the area of Brown and Stephenson glaciers and Stephenson Lagoon.

    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -52.95443
    Southernmost:
    -53.20027

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    73.23486
    Easternmost:
    73.83774

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • GLACIER AREA
    • REMOTE SENSING
    • GEOEYE-1

    Locations

    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

    Platforms

    • SATELLITES

    Instruments

    • GeoEye Imaging System

    Researchers

    • donoghue, shavawn (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
    • harris, ursula (INVESTIGATOR)

    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=Heard_Island_glacier_fluctuations_2012-2014 when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • IN WORK

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • AMD
      • CEOS

      Publications

      • Allison, I. and P. Keage (1986) Recent changes in the glaciers of Heard Island, Polar Record, 23(144), 255–271
      • Budd, G. (2000) Changes in Heard Island glaciers, King Penguins and Fur Seals since 1947, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133(2), 47–60
      • Budd, G. and P. Stephenson (1970) Recent glacier retreat on Heard Island, In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciological Exploration (ISAGE), Vol. 86. pp. 449–458, IASH.
      • Cogley, G.; Berthier, E, and Donoghue, S. (2014) Remote sensing of glaciers of the Subantarctic islands, In: J. Kargel, G. Leonard, M. Bishop, B. Raup and A. Kaab (eds), Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Chapter 33, 759-780.
      • Donoghue, S. (2009) Changes in the morphology, mass balance, and dynamics of Brown Glacier, Heard Island, with comparison to the surrounding sub-Antarctic islands., PhD thesis, 198, University of Tasmania
      • Harris U (2009) Heard Island digitising 2009, Australian Antarctic Data Centre
      • Lucieer A, Bender A and Harris U (2009) Remote sensing HIMI project 2008/2009: final report, Australian Antarctic Data Centre
      • Kiernan K and McConnell A (2002) Glacier retreat and melt-lake expansion at Stephenson Glacier, Heard Island World Heritage Area, Polar Record, 202(38), 297–308
      • Klekociuk, A. and Wienecke, B. (2017) Australia State of the Environment, Antarctic Environment, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
      • Ruddell A (2006) An inventory of present glaciers on Heard Island and their historical variation, In: Green K and Woehler E (eds), Heard Island: Southern Ocean sentinel, Surrey, Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, Sydney, 28–51.
      • Thost DE and Truffer M (2008) Glacier recession on Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean., Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 40, 199–214
      • Thost, D., M. Truffer, and S. Donoghue (2004) The Heard Island Glaciology Program 2003- 04, Australian Antarctic Division Report
      • Truffer, M., D. Thost, and A. Ruddell (2001) The Brown Glacier, Heard Island: its morphology, dynamics, mass balance and climate setting, Antarctic CRC Report

      Metadata Revision History

        2021-09-07 - record created by Shavawn Donoghue.

      Creative Commons License