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Siple Dome Field Camp
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Siple Dome Field Camp in 2012
Siple Dome Field Camp
Coordinates: 81°39′15″S 149°00′18″W / 81.654303°S 149.005134°W / -81.654303; -149.005134
Country	United States
Location in Antarctica	Siple Dome Marie Byrd Land Antarctica
Administered by	National Science Foundation
Established	1996 (1996)
Elevation	730 m (2,400 ft)
Population
• Total	Up to 60
Type	Seasonal

Siple Dome (81°39′15″S 149°00′18″W / 81.65430285°S 149.0051336°W / -81.65430285; -149.0051336) is an ice dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of Siple Coast in Antarctica. Charles Bentley and Robert Thomas established a "strain rosette" on this feature to determine ice movement in 1973–74. They referred to the feature as Siple Dome because of its proximity to Siple Coast.

Siple Dome ice core

The Siple Dome ice core project (79.468° S 112.086° W) was conducted by the United States National Science Foundation. The deepest ice was recovered in 1999 from 974 m, with an age of 97,600 years.

It is best known for the poorly-explained steps in water isotopes during the deglacial, which are unique to this core and may indicate a rapid decrease in the surface elevation of the adjoining ice streams during the deglacial and a record of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The Chief Scientist was Kendrick Taylor.

Radar surveys of internal ice structure

In the 1990s a team from the University of Washington and St Olaf College surveyed the ice, measuring thickness and determining internal structure, finding evidence for the operation of the Raymond Effect. They also found that the ice had a maximum thickness of around 1000 m.

In popular culture

• A documentary on climate change research associated with the Siple Dome ice core was produced by Nova: Warnings from the Ice, 1998. The documentary explains how reductions in Antarctic ice mass can raise sea level.
• Siple Dome is referenced in the song "Fall of Sipledome" by thrash metal band Testament (on their 1999 album The Gathering).

Climate

The climate is ice cap (Köppen: ET), as is most of the continent. Without marine moderation and a few hundred meters above sea level, it has one of the harshest winters on the continent outside the Antarctic plateaus. Unlike Alert, NU at slightly higher latitude and positive high averages during summer, in Siple Dome temperatures remain below freezing during the afternoon of the warmer months on average.

See also

Siple Dome Skiway
Siple Dome Field Camp
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	government
Owner/Operator	US Antarctic Program
Location	Marie Byrd Land
Elevation AMSL	1,994 ft / 607 m
Coordinates	81°39′29″S 148°59′51″W / 81.658053°S 148.997391°W / -81.658053; -148.997391
Map
Siple Dome SkiwayLocation of airfield in Antarctica
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 10,940 3,330 Ice

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Further reading

• Jinho Ahn, Edward J. Brook, Siple Dome ice reveals two modes of millennial CO2 change during the last ice age
• Pavel G. Talalay, Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology, PP 201– 202

References

1. Brook, E. J., White, J. W., Schilla, A. S., Bender, M. L., Barnett, B., Severinghaus, J. P., ... & Steig, E. J. (2005). Timing of millennial-scale climate change at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, during the last glacial period. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24(12), 1333-1343.
2. Taylor, K. C., White, J. W. C., Severinghaus, J. P., Brook, E. J., Mayewski, P. A., Alley, R. B., ... & Lamorey, G. W. (2004). Abrupt climate change around 22ka on the Siple Coast of Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23(1), 7-15.
3. Ahn, J., Wahlen, M., Deck, B. L., Brook, E. J., Mayewski, P. A., Taylor, K. C., & White, J. W. (2004). A record of atmospheric CO2 during the last 40,000 years from the Siple Dome, Antarctica ice core. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 109(D13)
4. Nereson, N.A.; Raymond, C.F.; et al. (2000). "The accumulation pattern across Siple Dome, West Antarctica, inferred from radar-detected internal layers". Journal of Glaciology. 46 (152): 75–87. Bibcode:2000JGlac..46...75N. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.367.2532. doi:10.3189/172756500781833449. S2CID 18864009.
5. "World Maps of Köppen-Geiger climate classification". koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
6. ^ "Siple dome, Antarctica #89345". Climatebase.ru. Retrieved July 24, 2019.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Siple Dome". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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