Frost Byte - Volume 5, Issue 45

News

A DVD documentary of the Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) second pilot study is now available through NSIDC. From the documentation:

“The project described in this documentary was a pilot study conducted in 1972 in preparation for the AIDJEX main experiment of 1975 to 1976. The study included a main camp on drifting sea ice in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska along with two satellite camps forming a station triangle with a 100 km side length. A detailed description of the observational program and a running account of the results can be found in the AIDJEX Bulletin series published between 1970 and the end of the project in 1978. The Bulletin is accessible in hard copy in the Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies at NSIDC. The Polar Science Center at the University of Washington maintains an AIDJEX electronic library (http://psc.apl.washington.edu/aidjex/). It includes downloadable copies of the contents of all 40 AIDJEX Bulletins, AIDJEX Operations Manuals for the Pilot Study and the Main Experiment, and other resources.”

Thanks to everyone who worked to get the catalog page and documentation published, especially Ann who worked without any notice to complete the project for us.

Gloria has converted the USGS Professional Paper series from journal to monograph (i.e., book), and you will find them under the call # 55. To check them out, you will fill out the book card in the back of the item. If you need help, please contact Gloria or Allaina.

Staff Report

Gloria will be out on vacation beginning the 19th of Dec., returning on the 27th. Allaina will also be out of the office on the 24th, but the library will be open. The library will be closed on Dec. 25 and 26 in observance of the holiday.

Reminders

If an item has a spine label and a book card, to check it out just fill in the card and drop it in the box on the library table.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports

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Antarctic Record, vol. 52, iss. 2
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, vol. 40, iss. 4
Antarctic Science, vol. 20, iss. 6
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, iss. 19
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 49
Physics Today, vol. 61, iss. 12
Earth System Monitor, vol. 17, iss. 2
International Journal of Climatology, vol. 28, iss. 14
Bulletin of the American Meterological Society, vol. 89, iss. 11
Polar Research, vol. 27, iss. 3
Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 55, iss. 1

Frost Byte - Volume 5, Issue 44

News

Several hundred unique users visit the DAHLI web site each month, roughly half of the users are from North America, the rest are scattered throughout the rest of the world. We have also begun to receive requests for materials that are not publicly posted due to copyright restrictions, as well as requests to post materials that are not yet on our list. Several of the documents that are available are quite popular receiving more than 100 requests each since the beginning of the year. These include:

United States Program for International Geophysical Cooperation – 1959. IGY General Report Series, no.6. Compiled and edited by Stanley Ruttenberg.

Recent glacier variations in southern South America. American Geographical Society southern Chile expedition, 1959, Technical Report. Donald B. Lawrence and Elizabeth G. Lawrence.

United States Program for the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958. IGY General Report Series, no.5. Compiled and edited by Stanley Ruttenberg.

Preliminary report on Expedition Downwind University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography IGY cruise to the Southeast Pacific. IGY General Report Series, no. 2. Edited by R. L. Fisher. 1958.

Development of surface morphology on Fletcher’s Ice Island, T-3. David D. Smith.

These titles and others can be found on the Bibliography page of the DAHLI web site.

The only funding this project currently receives is through the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) for the digitization of the materials. All of these items are currently discoverable through the DAHLI web site and also through the IPY Publications Database (IPYPD).

Staff Report

Gloria will be out of the office Tuesday, the 9^th, and on vacation beginning the 19^th of Dec., returning on the 27^th. Allaina will also be out of the office on the 24^th, but the library will be open. The library will be closed on Dec. 25 and 26 in observance of the holiday.

Reminders

If you have any reference or citation information needs prior to or during AGU, please contact us. We will be glad to help you. You can use email, chat (Yahoo IM, Windows Live Chat, AIM), or stop by the office.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports

EOS, v. 89, iss. 47,48

Journal of Glaciology, v. 54, #187

Polar Science, v. 2, iss. 3

Cold Regions Science and Technology, v. 54, iss. 3

Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, iss. 18

Books, Reprints, and Other Media

Polar visions by Ryan Vachon [DVD]

Final Cut Express 4 by Lisa Brenneis