WAISCORE Site Selection

该奖项是对一项为期两年的冰盖建模计划的支持，该计划旨在为西部南极冰芯内陆地区(WAISCORES)计划的深部钻探选址做出贡献。将进行冰流计算，以提供时间尺度和层厚度估计，并确定深层冰的来源区域。这项研究将专注于寻找在其漫长的冰动力学历史中应该保存最好的气候记录的地点。利用现有的雷达数据和冰动力学模型，将确定优化年龄分辨率和避免潜在干扰的基冰的地点。这项工作将与冰芯社区和其他调查人员密切协调，他们正试图确定具有良好沉积环境和冷杉保存的地区。该项目是德克萨斯大学地球物理研究所和华盛顿大学地球物理项目的合作项目。

This award is for support for a two year program of ice sheet modeling to contribute to the site selection for deep drilling at the inland site for the West Antarctic ice cores (WAISCORES) program. Ice flow calculations will be performed to provide time- scale and layer thickness estimates, and to identify source regions of deep ice. The research will focus on finding sites where the climate record should be best preserved throughout its long ice dynamics history. Using existing radar data and ice dynamical models sites will be identified that optimize age resolution and avoid potentially disturbed basal ice. The work will be closely coordinated with the ice coring community and other investigators who are trying to identify areas with good depositional environments and firn preservation. The project is a collaboration between the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the University of Washington Geophysics program.