The Antarctic Glaciological Data Center: Continued Data Collection and Management for Antarctic Glaciology

Scambos 0338134该奖项为国家冰雪数据中心（NSIDC）的南极冰川数据中心（AGDC）提供持续支持，该中心是美国南极计划（USAP）冰川数据的存档和数据分发系统。这项持续的努力建立了一个网站，其中载有最近从许多主要调查人员那里收集的南极冰川学和相关数据，并汇编了重要的冰川学参数产品，如冰流速和10米温度。AGDC有两个指导目标：从NSF资助的南极冰川学赠款中积累研究数据记录;为南极冰川学项目的主要研究人员提供基本的地球物理参数，用于实地规划，建模或研究分析。AGDC与美国南极数据协调中心有关，但不是其一部分。美国南极数据协调中心是所有南极研究的元数据信息库。在第二个五年期间，AGDC将以多种方式改善整体活动。大量的P.I.美国-ITASE项目的数据集将随着这些数据的公布和可供存档而增加。还将增加目前冰川学研究的其他数据集。AGDC将为处理选定的动力学和热力学模拟结果以及冰穿透雷达数据集制定适当的计划。这两种数据类型到目前为止已经证明很难管理。AGDC还将继续建立目前的“汇编产品”数据集，并在其中增加积雪测量汇编和深冰温度剖面。将咨询新成立的主要研究者审查小组，以获得指导和纳入数据的其他建议。该项目的智力价值在于，数据中心通过为研究人员提供随时访问过去和最近活动的详细数据来支持基础冰川学研究。通过网络访问这些数据，如果需要的话，在人类的帮助下，研究人员可以更快地探索想法，更容易地找到所需的信息和引文。数据中心的更广泛影响是，它还向感兴趣的公众提供南极洲的信息和图片，并将这些高层次的信息与NSIDC网站上更多面向外展的网站链接起来。此外，作为信息和数据的长期档案，AGDC站点是南极洲科学探索的记录，随着时间的推移，这将变得越来越有价值。

Scambos0338134This award provides continued support for the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) at The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), an archive and data distribution system for glaciological data from the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP). This on-going effort has created a website containing recently gathered Antarctic glaciological and related data from numerous principal investigators, and compiled products of important glaciological parameters such as ice flow velocity and 10-meter temperature. The AGDC has two guiding objectives: to accumulate a record of research data from NSF-funded Antarctic glaciology grants; and to provide principal investigators in the Antarctic Glaciology program with basic geophysical parameters useful for field planning, modeling, or research analysis. The AGDC is related to, but not a part of, the U.S. Antarctic Data Coordination Center, a repository of metadata information about all Antarctic research.In this second five-year period the AGDC will improve the overall activity in a number of ways. A large number of P.I. data sets from the US-ITASE project will be added as those data are published and becoming available for archival. Additional data sets from current glaciological research will be added as well. AGDC will develop appropriate schemes for handling selected dynamic and thermodynamic modeling results, and ice-penetrating radar data sets. These are two data types that have proven difficult to manage up to now. AGDC will also continue to build the current "Compiled Product" data sets, and add to them a compilation of snow accumulation measurements, and deep ice temperature profiles. A newly-formed review panel of principal investigators will be consulted for guidance and additional suggestions of data to incorporate. The intellectual merit of the project is that the data center supports basic glaciological research by providing researchers with ready access to well-described data from past and recent activities. By having these data web-accessible, with human assistance if needed, investigators can explore ideas more rapidly, and find needed information and citations more easily. The broader impacts of the data center are that it also provides the interested public with access to information and pictures of Antarctica, and links this somewhat high-level information to more outreach-oriented sites on the NSIDC web. Further, as a long-term archive of information and data, the AGDC site is a record of the scientific exploration of Antarctica, which will become increasingly valuable with the passage of time.