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T Antarctic Ce Sheet Itiative
race Publication 3115, Vol. 1 t Antarctic ce Sheet itiative :_,.me.-1: Science and ;mentation Plan iv-_J_ E -- --__o • E _-- rz " _ • _ _v_-- . "2-. .... E _ ____ __ _k - -- - ...... --rr r_--_.-- .... m-- _ £3._= --- - • ,r- ..... _ k • -- ..... __= ---- = ............ --_ m -- -- ..... Z Im .... r .... _,... ___ "--. 11 1"1 I' I i ¸ NASA Conference Publication 3115, Vol. 1 West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative Volume 1: Science and Implementation Plan Edited by Robert A. Bindschadler NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland Proceedings of a workshop cosponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., and held at Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland October 16-18, 1990 IXl/_/X National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Management Scientific and Technical Information Division 1991 CONTENTS Page Preface v Workshop Participants vi Acknowledgements vii Map viii 1. Executive Summary 1 2. Climatic Importance of Ice Sheets 4 3. Marine Ice Sheet Instability 5 4. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative 6 4.1 Goal and Objectives 6 4.2 A Multidisciplinary Project 7 4.3 Scientific Focus: A Single Goal 7 4.4 Geographic Focus: West Antarctica 7 4.5 Duration: A Phased Approach 8 5. Science Plan 10 5.1 Glaciology 10 5.1.1 Ice Dynamics 10 5.1.2 Ice Cores 16 5.2 Meteorology 19 5.3 Oceanography 23 5.4 Geology and Geophysics 27 5.4.1 Terrestrial Geology 27 5.4.2 Marine Geology and Geophysics 28 5.4.3 Subglacial Geology and Geophysics 30 6. -
2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival CFCH Staff 2017 Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 600 Maryland Ave SW Washington, D.C. [email protected] https://www.folklife.si.edu/archive/ Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Historical note.................................................................................................................. 2 Scope and Contents note................................................................................................ 2 Arrangement note............................................................................................................ 2 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 3 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 4 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 6 Series 1: Program Books, Festival Publications, and Ephemera, 2008................... 6 Series 2: Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon....................................................... 7 Series 3: NASA: Fifty Years and Beyond............................................................. -
Icesat Gapfiller Report
National Aeronautics and Space Administration An analysis and summary of options for collecting ICESat-like data from aircraft through 2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration An analysis and summary of options for collecting ICESat-like data from aircraft through 2014 January 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary . 1 1.0 Introduction . 3 1.1 ICESat description and instrument specifications . 3 1.2 A summary of science requirements and regions of interest . 3 2.0 Payloads and Platforms . 4 2.1 Instrument Descriptions . 12 2.2 Platforms available and in development . 19 3.0 Airborne mission concepts for ICESat data continuity . 20 3.1 Greenland . 20 3.2 Arctic Sea Ice . 34 3.3 Antarctic sea ice and coastal glaciers . 45 3.4 Antarctic sub-glacial lakes . 59 3.5 Southeast Alaskan glaciers . 74 4.0 Budget summary . 88 Appendix . 93 CONTRIBUTORS Matthew Fladeland, NASA Ames Research Center (Editor) Seelye Martin, University of Washington (Editor) Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado Robert Bindschadler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center James B. Blair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Robert Curry, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Frank Cutler, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Sinead Farrell, NOAA Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California at San Diego Prasad Goginini, University of Kansas Ian Joughin, University of Washington William Krabill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ronald Kwok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Kenneth Jezek, Ohio State University Eric Rignot, University of California, Irvine Susan Schoenung, NASA Ames Research Center/BAER Institute Benjamin Smith, University of Washington Steve Wegener, NASA Ames Research Center/BAER Institute John Valliant, NASA Wallops Flight Facility Jay Zwally, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The time gap between the end of ICESat-I, which will probably occur this year, and the launch of ICESat-II in the 2014-15 time window creates a data gap in laser observations of the changes in ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice. -
ISSN 2221—2698 Arkhangelsk 2015
ISSN 2221—2698 Arkhangelsk 2015. N18 Arctic and North. 2015. N 18 2 ISSN 2221—2698 Arctic and North. 2015. N 18 Multidisciplinary internet scientific journal © Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, 2015 © Editorial board of the internet scientific journal “Arctic and North”, 2015 Published not less than four times per year The journal is registered at: Roskomnadzor as electronic periodical published in Russian and English. Registration certifi- cate of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media El № FS77-42809 from November 26, 2010. The ISSN International Centre — world catalog of serials and ongoing resources. ISSN 2221— 2698, 23—24 March 2011. The system of Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). License contract № 96-04/2011R from April 12, 2011. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — catalog of free access journals, 18.08.2013. The catalogs of international databases: EBSCO Publishing (USA) since December 2012; Global Se- rials Directory Ulrichsweb (USA) in October 2013. NSD — database of higher education in Norway (analog of Russian Higher Attestation Commis- sion) from February 2015. Founder — FSAEI HPE Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov. The editorial board staff of “Arctic and North” journal is published on the web site at: http://narfu.ru/aan/DOCS/redsovet.phpEditor-in-Chief — Yury Fedorovich Lukin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Worker of the higher school of the Russian Federation. Multidisciplinary internet scientific journal publishes articles in which the Arctic and the North are research objects, specifically in the following fields of science: history, economics, social sciences; political science (geopolitics); ecology. -
Annu Al Repor T 201 1-201 2
ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 ANNUAL Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research Studies and Investigations GESTAR STAFF Abuhassan, Nader Jethva, Hiren Radcliff, Matthew Achuthavarier, Deepthi Jin, Jianjun Randles, Cynthia Anyamba, Assaf Jones, Randall Reale, Oreste Baird, Steve Jusem, Juan Carlos Retscher, Christian Barahona, Donifan Kekesi, Alex Reyes, Malissa Beck, Jefferson Kim, Dongchul Rousseaux, Cecile Bell, Benita Kim, Hyokyung Sayer, Andrew Belvedere, Debbie Kim, Kyu-Myong Schiffer, Robert Bindschadler, Robert Kniffen, Don Schindler, Trent Bridgman, Tom Korkin, Sergey Selkirk, Henry Brucker, Ludovic Kostis, Helen-Nicole Sharghi, Kayvon Brunt, Kelly Kowalewski, Matthew Shi, Jainn Jong (Roger) Buchard-Marchant, Virginie Kreutzinger, Rachel Sippel, Jason Burger, Matthew Kucsera, Tom Smith, Sarah Celarier, Edward Kurtz, Nathan Soebiyanto, Radina Chang, Yehui Kurylo, Michael Sokolowsky, Eric Chase, Tyler Lait, Leslie Southard, Adrian Chern, Jiun-Dar Lamsal, Lok Starr, Cynthia Chettri, Samir Laughlin, Daniel Steenrod, Stephen ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Colombo, Oscar Lawford, Richard Stoyanova, Silvia Corso, William Lee, Dong Min Strahan, Susan Cote, Charles Lentz, Michael Strode, Sarah Dalnekoff, Julie Lewis, Katherine Sun, Zhibin Damoah, Richard Li, Feng Swanson, Andrew De Lannoy, Gabrielle J. Li, Xiaowen Taha, Ghassan de Matthaeis, Paolo Liang, Qing Tan, Qian Diehl, Thomas Liao, Liang Tao, Zhining Draper, Clara Lim, Young-Kwon Tian, Lin Duberstein, Genna Lin, Xin Ungar, Stephen Eck, Thomas Lyu, Chen-Hsuan (Joseph) Unninayar, Sushel Errico, Ronald -
The Earth Observer
National Aeronautics and Space Administration The Earth Observer. March - April 2008. Volume 20, Issue 2. Editor’s Corner Michael King EOS Senior Project Scientist I’m happy to report that The Earth Observer is beginning its 20th year as a NASA publication. The first issue was released in March 1989, and from the beginning, it has been dedicated to keeping our readers abreast of the latest developments in the Earth Observing System (EOS) program. I have been pleased to serve as EOS Senior Project Scientist since September 1992, and thus have been around for most of The Earth Observer’s 20-year history. It has been my privilege to work with a wide variety of talented individuals over the years who have made contributions to the publication as authors, designers, editors, etc. The names are too many to list, but I would particularly like to recognize the members of the current EOS Project Science Office who are involved. Alan Ward (Executive Editor) and Charlotte Griner (former Executive Editor) thoroughly review the content of every issue and are constantly on the lookout for interesting articles for future issues. Tim Suttles, and Chris Chris- sotimos also serve as Technical Editors and review each issue. Debbi McLean does the layout of the newsletter and handles the production of each issue. Cindy Trapp and Leon Middleton help with the distribution of each issue. Steve Graham maintains a database that keeps track of over 6000 subscribers. PDFs of every issue from 1995 to the present are posted on the EOS Project Science Office website that Maura Tokay maintains—eospso. -
A Research Program for Projecting Sea-Level Rise from Land-Ice Loss
A Research Program for Projecting Sea‐Level Rise from Land‐ice Loss Edited by Robert A. Bindschadler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Peter U. Clark, Oregon State University; and David M. Holland, New York University This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF 10‐36804. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. 1 A Research Program for Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise from Land-Ice Loss Coordinating Lead Authors: Robert A. Bindschadler, Peter U. Clark, David M. Holland Lead Authors: Waleed Abdalati, Regine Hock, Katherine Leonard, Laurie Padman, Stephen Price, John Stone, Paul Winberry Contributing Authors Richard Alley, Anthony Arendt, Jeremy Bassis, Cecilia Bitz, Kelly Falkner, Gary Geernaert, Omar Gattas, Dan Goldberg, Patrick Heimbach, Ian Howat, Ian Joughin, Andrew Majda, Jerry Mitrovica, Walter Munk, Sophie Nowicki, Bette Otto-Bliesner, Tad Pfeffer, Thomas Phillips, Olga Sergienko, Jeff Severinghaus, Mary-Louise Timmermans, David Ullman, Michael Willis, Peter Worcester, Carl Wunsch 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Background 4 Objective 5 Research Questions 1. What is the ongoing rate of change in mass for all glaciers and ice sheets and what are the major contributing components to the mass change? 6 2. How do surface processes and their spatial and temporal variability affect the mass balance and behavior of land ice? 8 3. What are the geometry, character, behavior and evolution of the ice/bed interface, and what are their impacts on ice flow? 11 4. -
The North Atlantic Inflow to the Arctic Ocean: High-Resolution Model Study
ÔØ ÅÒÙ×Ö ÔØ The North Atlantic inflow to the Arctic Ocean: High-resolution model study Yevgeny Aksenov, Sheldon Bacon, Andrew C. Coward, A.J. George Nurser PII: S0924-7963(09)00211-5 DOI: doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.05.003 Reference: MARSYS 1863 To appear in: Journal of Marine Systems Received date: 30 July 2008 Revised date: 27 March 2009 Accepted date: 27 May 2009 Please cite this article as: Aksenov, Yevgeny, Bacon, Sheldon, Coward, Andrew C., Nurser, A.J. George, The North Atlantic inflow to the Arctic Ocean: High-resolution model study, Journal of Marine Systems (2009), doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.05.003 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT The North Atlantic Inflow to the Arctic Ocean: High-resolution Model Study ∗ YEVGENY AKSENOV , SHELDON BACON, ANDREW C. COWARD AND A. J. GEORGE NURSER National Oceanography Centre, Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK __________________________________________________________________ Abstract North Atlantic Water (NAW) plays a central role in the ocean climate of the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean. Whereas the pathways of the NAW in the Nordic Seas are mostly known, those into the Arctic Ocean are yet to be fully understood. -
A.PMD Cover Photos
Cover Photos Top Photo This photo shows the launching of a tethered, helium-filled balloon attached to an instrument that measures the characteristics of water vapor at different altitudes above the South Pole. By attaching this instrument to a tethered balloon, the instrument can be sent to different altitudes and readily recovered. The building from which the tethered balloon and instrument are being launched in this photo is a temporary facility located adjacent to the Clean Air Sector boundary at the South Pole. The trench in front of this building provides a location for the balloon to be stored between launch periods. (Photo by Jeff Inglis) Bottom Photo This photo shows the launching of a balloon and accompanying ozone sonde from the VXE-6 platform at McMurdo Station. The balloon-borne measurements provide good methods to measure the detailed altitude structure of ozone and Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs) from the ground up to the lower stratosphere, where the bulk of ozone exists and where PSCs form. (Photo by Ginny Figlar) This Science Planning Summary publication was prepared by the Science Support Division of Raytheon Polar Services Company Under contract to the National Science Foundation OPP-0000373 Foreword This United States Antarctic Program (USAP) Science Planning Sum- mary contains a synopsis of the 2000-2001 season (i.e., from mid-August 2000 to mid-August 2001) for the USAP. This publication is a preseason summary (i.e., prior to the 2000-2001 austral-summer season); it contains the current information available as of early September 2000. Some of this information may change throughout the austral summer and winter-over periods as project planning evolves. -
Modern Processes Controlling the Sea Bed Sediment Formation in Barents Sea
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-7920-1, 2009 EGU General Assembly 2009 © Author(s) 2009 Modern processes controlling the sea bed sediment formation in Barents Sea I. Balanyuk (2), A. Dmitrievsky (1), S. Shapovalov (2), O. Chaikina (2), and T. Akivis (2) (2) P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation ([email protected], (1) Oil and Gas Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia ([email protected] / Phone: +7 499-1357371 The Barents Sea is one of the key regions for understanding of the postglacial history of the climate and circulation of the World Ocean. There are the limits of warm North Atlantic waters penetration to the Arctic and a zone of interaction between Atlantic and Arctic waters. The Barents Se’s limits are the deep Norwegian Sea in the West, the Spitsbergen Island and the Franz Josef Land and the deep Nansen trough in the North, the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the East and the North shore of Europe in the South. An analysis of Eurasian-Arctic continental margin shows correspondence between the rift systems of the shelf with those of the ocean. This relation can be observed in the central Arctic region. All the rift systems underlying the sediment basin are expressed in the sea bed relief as spacious and extensive graben valleys burnished by lobes. Two transverse trenches cross both shelf and continental slope, namely the Medvezhinsky trench between Norway and Spitsbergen in the West and the Franz Victoria trench between Spitsbergen and the Franz Josef Land in the North. -
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Inspiration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration f 2007 spinof Inspiration Innovation Discovery Future Innovative Partnerships Program Developed by On the Cover: Photograph of the International Space Publications and Graphics Department Station taken from the Space Shuttle Atlantis on June 19 2007, at the end of STS-117. The mission NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI) delivered the second and third starboard truss segments (S3/S4) and another pair of solar arrays to the station. Table of Contents 5 Foreword 7 Introduction 8 Executive Summary 18 NASA Technologies Benefiting Society Health and Medicine Circulation-Enhancing Device Improves CPR ........................................................................................................22 Noninvasive Test Detects Cardiovascular Disease ...................................................................................................26 Scheduling Accessory Assists Patients with Cognitive Disorders ..............................................................................30 Neurospinal Screening Evaluates Nerve Function ..................................................................................................32 Hand-Held Instrument Fights Acne, Tops Over-the-Counter Market ....................................................................34 Multispectral Imaging Broadens Cellular Analysis ...................................................................................................36 Hierarchical Segmentation Enhances Diagnostic Imaging .......................................................................................40 -
Making the Russian Bomb from Stalin to Yeltsin
MAKING THE RUSSIAN BOMB FROM STALIN TO YELTSIN by Thomas B. Cochran Robert S. Norris and Oleg A. Bukharin A book by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Westview Press Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford Copyright Natural Resources Defense Council © 1995 Table of Contents List of Figures .................................................. List of Tables ................................................... Preface and Acknowledgements ..................................... CHAPTER ONE A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOVIET BOMB Russian and Soviet Nuclear Physics ............................... Towards the Atomic Bomb .......................................... Diverted by War ............................................. Full Speed Ahead ............................................ Establishment of the Test Site and the First Test ................ The Role of Espionage ............................................ Thermonuclear Weapons Developments ............................... Was Joe-4 a Hydrogen Bomb? .................................. Testing the Third Idea ...................................... Stalin's Death and the Reorganization of the Bomb Program ........ CHAPTER TWO AN OVERVIEW OF THE STOCKPILE AND COMPLEX The Nuclear Weapons Stockpile .................................... Ministry of Atomic Energy ........................................ The Nuclear Weapons Complex ...................................... Nuclear Weapon Design Laboratories ............................... Arzamas-16 .................................................. Chelyabinsk-70