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  • International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958: Drifting Station Alpha Documentary Film

    Metadata Updated: November 10, 2020

    This film documents the activities that occurred on Drifting Station Alpha in the Arctic Ocean during the International Geophysical Year, 1957 to 1958. The film is narrated by project leader, Norbert Untersteiner, and chronicles the life of the team as they built their camp and set up experiments. Station Alpha was the first long-term scientific base on arctic pack ice operated by a Western country. At the time of its establishment, Russia had already operated six drifting ice camps of this kind. However, due to the strategic importance and sensitivity of the Arctic Basin, little information from these early stations had reached the West. The documentary was filmed and produced by Frans van der Hoeven (Senior Scientist at Station Alpha) and Norbert Untersteiner (Scientific Leader of Station Alpha). Station Alpha drifted in an area of the Arctic ocean located 500 km north of Barrow, Alaska USA from April 1957 to November 1958; the film covers this entire time period. Digitized copies of the film are available on DVD.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date August 13, 2015
    Metadata Created Date October 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Reference Date(s) July 31, 2009 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update asNeeded

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    Harvested from NSIDC

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date August 13, 2015
    Metadata Created Date October 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Reference Date(s) July 31, 2009 (publication)
    Responsible Party (Principal Investigator); Delft Univerisyt of Technology (Principal Investigator); National Snow and Ice Data Center (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Access Constraints Access Constraints : none, Use Constraints : none
    Bbox East Long 180
    Bbox North Lat 87
    Bbox South Lat 80
    Bbox West Long 110
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    Frequency Of Update asNeeded
    Guid noaa.ncei.nsidc.G02184
    Harvest Object Id 37b4621d-065a-4043-adfc-af83eb88f4d2
    Harvest Source Id 224f31ac-25d5-415f-90f5-3fac2f85f82c
    Harvest Source Title NSIDC
    Licence
    Metadata Language
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Progress complete
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 19570401
    Temporal Extent End 19581130

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