Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Apr 2003
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #9951
Computer Science
Sound
Scientific paper
Talos Dome is an ice dome in the East Antarctica near the coastal line. The exact position was located first with the analysis of ERS-1 data and then from kinematic GPS data collected in 2002. In the area of Talos Dome two traverse surveys were carried out in 1996 and 2002 and eight shallow snow firn cores were drilled in order to understand latitudinal and longitudinal gradient and to document climatic and atmospheric conditions. The interest in Talos Dome area is due to the possibility to extract an ice core down to the bedrock: it would be the first deep drilling in a near coastal site. Frontier Mountain is located about 30 km SE from Talos Dome and its blue ice field is an important meteorite trap. The mechanism concentration is due to the particular flow of ice, slow moving against an absolute and submerged barrier. In the area of Talos Dome and Frontier Mountain airborne radar surveys were conducted by Italian PNRA (Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide) in 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001. We present here the bedrock topography obtained by the analysis of all radar data. Our objective is to have a full description of main caractheristics of the bedrock. This could be helpful in the choice of the best site for drilling and could provide more input data for flow model near Frontier Mountain. Radar data are not homogeneous because radar systems with different characteristics have been used. All data have been processed with the same criteria to obtain a homogeneous dataset. Radio-echo sounding records show quite good reflections from the ice sheet base and the internal layering. This confirms the preliminary results of snow radar data with a continuous and horizontal (up to 15 km from the Dome) internal layering. The data of all expeditions have been cross-controlled and are in good agreement each-other.
de Michelis Paola
della Vedova A.
Forieri A.
Tabacco Ignazio
Zirizzotti A.
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