- Brief user guide
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Functional outline of the data portal search interface. The Data Access Portal has information in 3 columns. An outline of the content in these columns is provided above. When first entering the search interface, all potential datasets are listed. Datasets are indicated in the map and results tabulation elements which are located in the middle column. The order of results can be modified using the "Sort by" option in the left column. On top of this column is normally relevant guidance information to user presented as collapsible elements.
If the user want to refine the search, this can be done by constraining the bounding box search. This is done in the map - the listing of datasets is automatically updated. Date constraints can be added in the left column. For these to take effect, the user has to push the button marked search. In the left column it is also possible to specific text elements to search for in the datasets. Again pushing the button marked "Search" is necessary for these to take action. Complex search patterns can be constructed by changing the operators used in the text field and prefixing words with '+' and '-' to indicate whether they have to be present or should not be present in the results.
Other elements indicated in the left and right columns are facet searches, i.e. these are keywords that are found in the datasets and all datasets that contain these specific keywords in the appropriate metadata elements are listed together. Further refinement can be done using full text, date or bounding box constraints. Individuals, organisations and data centres involved in generating or curating the datasets are listed in the facets in the right column.
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If you use data retrieved through this portal, please acknowledge the efforts of the data portal and the data centres contributing.
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- publisher (for data this is often the archive where it is housed),
- edition or version,
- access information (a URL or persistent identifier, e.g. DOI if provided)
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Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & InnovationShow more...
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This is the high frequency (10 Hz) eddy covariance (EC) measurements which mainly contain the wind data, ship motion data, gas concentration data and the underway measurements. These data were measured on summer 2019 during two Arctic cruises JR18006 (from and to Aberdeen, UK and visited the Barents Sea ) and JR18007 (from Harwich, UK to Svalbard and visited the Greenland Sea). These EC data can be used to directly calculate the air-sea CO2 and sensible heat fluxes. The EC system was deployed on RRS James Clark Ross by Thomas Bell and Mingxi Yang (Plymouth Marine Laboratory). Please see Dong et al., (2021) for details of these EC data.
Eddy covariance air-sea CO2 flux measurements were made possible by funding from the NERC ORCHESTRA (NE/N018095/1) and European Space Agency AMT4oceanSatFluxCCN (4000125730/18/NL/FF /gp) projects.Access: otherRestrictions-
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey
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To provide further stratigraphic resolution through the Gustav Group a key section through the Kotick Point, Whisky Bay and Hidden Lake formations, adjacent to Brandy Bay on northern James Ross Island was re-measured and sampled for both Sr isotope stratigraphy and palynostratigraphy. In total, a sedimentary succession about 1600m thick, that encompasses the initial three stages of the Upper Cretaceous period, was measured and a suite of invertebrate macrofossils, palynology samples, palaeobotanical and general lithological samples were collected along the lines of measured samples.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation
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The datasets are ice tilt time series from strings of accelerometers, each located at a discrete depth within one of three boreholes into Khumbu Glacier, Nepal. Ice deformation can be derived from this tilt data, but has not yet been calculated. Boreholes were drilled in May 2017 and 2018 to investigate the internal properties of Khumbu Glacier, specifically ice thickness, temperature, deformation and structure, as part of the NERC-funded ''EverDrill'' research project. Supporting borehole information is provided as a related dataset.
Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/P00265X/1 and NE/P002021/1.
***** PLEASE BE ADVISED TO USE VERSION 2.0 DATA *****
The VERSION 2.0 data set (see ''Related Data Set Metadata'' link below) which contains an additional 11 months of measurements.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation
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The dataset consists of the relative abundances of the DNA and RNA of a fungus in soil samples from Signy and Leonie Islands, along with physico-chemical parameters (moisture concentration, pH value, total carbon and nitrogen concentrations, delta-carbon-13 content, carbon-14 enrichment, and mean carbon residence time).
Funding was provided by NERC grants NE/H014098/1 and NE/H014772/1 and NE/H01408X/1Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation
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These datasets show how lake water-pressure fluctuated through time over several months in seasonally-frozen catchments in winter. These catchments were in three settings: the lowland Finnish Arctic, an alpine valley and a high cirque in Switzerland. The water-pressure data are accompanied by water temperature and (except for Orajarvi), ground temperature for the same periods. Together, they were used to detect and quantify the water content of snow falling on the lake surfaces. The locations, method of data collection and analysis and the results are described in detail in Pritchard, H. D., Farinotti, D., & Colwell, S. (2021).
This work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to the British Antarctic Survey, and a fellowship from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, UK Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, NERC, UKRI
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Adventdalen is a medium-sized (513 km2) catchment in continuous permafrost zone of central Spitsbergen. It is an important study area, but the river is highly unsuitable for monitoring runoff on account of the high sediment yield and extremely unstable channel sections in the large delta. This necessitates the estimation of runoff volume through the application of a suitable model. Daily runoff was therefore simulated using daily precipitation and temperature data series (1991-2016) and the HBV model. Daily water temperature and electrical conductivity were also monitored at the point of interest to provide basic water quality parameters alongside the runoff quantity data.
Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M019829/1.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation
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Eight Antarctic Fur seal rookeries near King Edward Point on South Georgia have been monitored since 2008. The colonies (Burnet1, Burnet2, Burnet2, Little, Poa1, Poa2, Poa3 and Tortula) are surveyed frequently between November and January. The number of males, females, pups and juveniles are recorded. Data is also summarised as max count per season for males, females pups and juveniles, and first pup date.
This work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to the British Antarctic Survey.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation
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The breeding success (calculated from nest and chick counts) of Gentoo penguins is monitored annually at Bird Island, South Georgia. The number of incubating nests and chicks reaching fledging stage are counted in several Gentoo penguin colonies. Data exist from 1982 onwards.
This work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to the British Antarctic Survey.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, NERC
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Datasets from a shallow water mooring deployed in the Southern Ocean, north of South Georgia in January 2004 during the marine cruise JR96 and recovered in March 2004 by the marine cruise JR100.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre
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Surface ozone measurements taken using a 2B-Technologies (Model 202) ozone analyzer, at CASLab (the Clean Air Sector Laboratory), Halley Station, between 2004 and 2005. The dataset lists O3 mixing ratios at 1-minute averages of 10 second data.
This work was carried out as part of the Chemistry of the Antarctic Boundary Layer and the Interface with Snow (CHABLIS) project (2001-2006).Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation
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An airborne radar survey was flown during the austral summer of 2015/16 over the Foundation Ice Stream, Bungenstock Ice Rise, and the Filchner ice shelf as part of the 5-year Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS) project. This project was a NERC-funded (grant reference number: NE/L013770/1) collaborative initiative between the British Antarctic Survey, the National Oceanography Centre, the Met Office Hadley Centre, University College London, the University of Exeter, Oxford University, and the Alfred Wenger Institute to investigate how the Filchner Ice Shelf might respond to a warmer world, and what the impact of sea-level rise could be by the middle of this century. The 2015/16 aerogeophysics survey acquired ~7,000 line km of aerogeophysical data with a particular focus on the Foundation Ice Stream.
Our Twin Otter aircraft was equipped with dual-frequency carrier-phase GPS for navigation, radar altimeter for surface mapping, wing-tip magnetometers, and a new ice-sounding radar system (PASIN-2).
We present here the processed line aeromagnetic data collected using the Scintrex cs3 caesium magnetometer mounted in the BAS aerogeophysically equipped Twin Otter aircraft.
Data are provided as XYZ ASCII line data.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, NERC
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Datasets from a deep sediment trap (3200m) mooring deployed in the Southern Ocean, south-west of South Georgia in December 2009 during the marine cruise JR228 and recovered in November 2011 by the marine cruise JR260a.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UKResearch&Innovation
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These files contain the data from the figures in "A 30 year simulation of the outer electron radiation belt", S.A. Glauert, et al., Space Weather 2018.
The paper describes a 30 year (1 January 1986 - 1 January 2016) reconstruction of the Earth''s electron radiation belt from L*=2 to L*=6.1 (approximately geostationary orbit), for energies ranging from 100 keV to 30 MeV at L*=6.1.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey
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This data set contains bed and surface elevation picks derived from airborne radar collected during the WISE/ISODYN project. This collaborative UK/Italian project collected ~ 61000 line km of new aerogeophysical data during the 2005/2006 austral summer, over the previously poorly surveyed Wilkes subglacial basin, Dome C, George V Land and Northern Victoria Land.Access: otherRestrictions -
Institutions: British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Survey, Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation
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A high resolution seamask for regions south of 60S, comprised of a roundel polygon with all land and ice shelves erased.Access: otherRestrictions