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mbs_wilhelm_msa_hooh

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Citation
Curran, M. and van Ommen, T. (2011) 15 year Wilhelm II Land MSA and HOOH shallow ice core record from Mount Brown South (MBS), Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/5c639f7d21621, Accessed: 2026-06-10
Title
15 year Wilhelm II Land MSA and HOOH shallow ice core record from Mount Brown South (MBS)
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.26179/5c639f7d21621
Created Date
2011-02-23
Revision Date
2019-02-13
Expected Date of Data Release
2011-03-03
Data Version
1
Parent record
ASAC_757

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    Description

    This work presents results from a short firn core spanning 15 years collected from near Mount Brown, Wilhelm II Land, East Antarctica. Variations of methanesulphonic acid (MSA) at Mount Brown were positively correlated with sea-ice extent from the coastal region surrounding Mount Brown (60-1208 E) and from around the entire Antarctic coast (0-3608 E). Previous results from Law Dome identified this MSA-sea-ice relationship and proposed it as an Antarctic sea-ice proxy (Curran and others, 2003), with the strongest results found for the local Law Dome region. Our data provide supporting evidence for the Law Dome proxy (at another site in East Antarctica), but a deeper Mount Brown ice core is required to confirm the sea-ice decline suggested by Curran and others (2003). Results also indicate that this deeper record may also provide a more circum-Antarctic sea-ice proxy.

    This work was completed as part of ASAC project 757 (ASAC_757).

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

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -69.12
    Southernmost:
    -69.13

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    86.082
    Easternmost:
    86.084

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • MSA
    • methanesulphonic acid
    • Mt Brown
    • Firn Core

    Locations

    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • FIELD SURVEYS

    Instruments

    • CORING DEVICES

    Researchers

    • curran, mark (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
    • van ommen, tas (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
    • anderson, jason (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=mbs_wilhelm_msa_hooh when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • AMD
      • ACE/CRC

      Publications

      • Foster, A. F. M., Curran, M. A. J., Smith, B. T., van Ommen, T. D., Morgan, V. I. (2006) Covariation of sea ice and methanesulphonic acid in Wilhelm II Land, East Antarctica., Annals of Glaciology, 44(1), 429-432, DOI: 10.3189/172756406781811394

      Metadata Revision History

        2011-03-01 - record created by Jason Anderson on behalf of Mark Curran. 2011-10-10 - record updated by Dave Connell to add parent DIF. 2012-11-07 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct dodgy characters. 2019-02-13 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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