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    • University of Wisconsin Antarctic Soils Database, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    The University of Wisconsin Antarctic Soils Database contains data collected by Dr. James G. Bockheim and his colleagues from 1975 through 1987. Data include site information, air and soil temperature measurements, soil profile features, and surface boulder weathering features for 482 sites in the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. Soil profile descriptions are provided for soils inside the McMurdo Dry Valleys from 23 December 1975 to 22 December 1987, and outside the Dry Valleys from 13 November 1978 to 04 January 1986. Chemical and physical properties of soils at 214 sites are also provided. The study area is confined to 77 deg 7.5 min S to 78 deg S, 160 deg E to 164 deg E. Data are in tab-delimited ASCII text format, and are available via ftp.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. 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 Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1386206549-NSIDCV0
    Data First Published 1975-01-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 1987-12-31
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation University of Wisconsin Antarctic Soils Database, Version 1. Version 1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1386206549-NSIDCV0.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial 160.0 -78.0 164.0 -77.2
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 53bf3cabce11c3e620b99026e95b6c89cfd63e8556cbef983b43246f23229bee
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z/1987-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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