Casey Station 1982 Antarctic Glaciology Field Measurements

Field measurements from the 1982 ANARE glaciology program at Casey Station, Law Dome, and Wilkes Land. The data resulted from several inland traverses and includes records of ice movement, barometric leveling, bedrock profiling, accumulation, and gravity. The Australian Antarctic Division archived these documents.

Use Cases

• Analyze ice_movement data to model glacier flow rates and dynamics.
• Use barometric_levelling and gravity measurements to infer subglacial topography and ice thickness.
• Correlate accumulation data with climate records to study historical precipitation patterns.
• Profile bedrock data to create maps of the underlying Antarctic geology.

Strengths

• Data originates from a formal national Antarctic research program (ANARE).
• Covers multiple field sites: Casey, Law Dome, and Wilkes Land.
• Includes several distinct measurement types: ice movement, leveling, profiling, accumulation, gravity.

Limitations

• Dataset is a scanned report, likely requiring manual digitization for computational analysis.
• Data is from a single year (1982), limiting temporal trend analysis.
• Specific row counts, column definitions, and file formats are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AU_AADC), archived from the Australian Antarctic Division records store.

Collection Method

Field measurements collected during several inland traverses as part of the ANARE Glaciology program.

Time Range

1982

Freshness

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Geography

Casey Station, Law Dome, Wilkes Land, Antarctica.