Law Dome Ice Core Borehole Temperature and Orientation Records 1982-83

Borehole temperature and orientation measurements were taken from two ice core drill sites, BHC1 and BHC2, on Law Dome. The data was recorded during a field season in 1982-83 by the Australian Antarctic Division. Results are archived in a hard copy document.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature variation between the BHC1 and BHC2 borehole sites.
• Correlate borehole orientation data with ice core stratigraphy for alignment studies.
• Use the 1982-83 temperature records as baseline data for thermal modeling of the Law Dome ice sheet.
• Validate ice core sample depth assignments using recorded borehole orientation features.

Strengths

• Data covers two distinct borehole sites (BHC1 and BHC2) for comparison.
• Provides a specific temporal snapshot from the 1982-83 Antarctic field season.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small, containing data from only two boreholes.
• Data is temporally stale, last updated over 40 years ago in 1983.
• The original data format and accessibility are unclear, archived only as a hard copy.

Provenance

Source

Australian Antarctic Division (AU_AADC).

Collection Method

Field measurements recorded from ice core boreholes.

Time Range

1982-1983.

Freshness

Static historical dataset; last updated 1983-12-31.

Geography

Law Dome, Antarctica.