Electrolytic conductivity of snow and glacier ice from Antarctica and Greenland
By: Anthony J. Gow
Contributors: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)
Series: Research report -- 248; Research report (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)) -- 248
Publisher: U.S. Army Materiel Command, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Subjects: Snow; Electric propertics; Ice; Electric properties; Electrolytes; Conductivity; Glaciers
Description: Conductivity measurements have been made on snow and ice samples from pits and deep drill holes at a number of localities in Antarctica and Greenland. Data were obtained from deep cores representing more than 1900 years of continuous snow accumulation at Byrd Station, Antarctica, and more than 400 years deposition at Inge Lehmann, Greenland. Measurements of freshly precipitated snow from a single coastal location in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, also yielded conductivities. The substantial increase observed in the conductivity of core samples from near the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf at Little America 5 can be attributed most probably to windborne salts of marine origin that had accumulated on the surface after the snow was deposited.
Notes: "October 1968."

"DA task 1T061102B52A02."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 8).