Welcome to the British Antarctic Survey feature library for the Ice Sheet Stability Programme (iSTAR).
iSTAR is an ambitious scientific programme funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). It brings together leading scientists from 11 UK universities and from British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The six-year, £7.4 million programme is organised into four main research projects — each uses state-of-the art technologies to make new discoveries about the ocean or the ice:
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iSTAR A - Ocean2ice: Processes and variability of ocean heat transport towards ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Embayment
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iSTAR B - Ocean under ice: Ocean circulation and melting beneath the ice shelves of the south-eastern Amundsen Sea
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iSTAR C - Dynamic ice: Dynamic control of the response of Pine Island Glacier (iSTAR C)
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iSTAR D - Ice loss : The contribution to sea-level rise of the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica (iSTAR D)
The feature library contains information on the data collected during the iSTAR project as well as legacy / external datasets associated with iSTAR research.
To download iSTAR GIS datasets please visit the iSTAR GIS RAMADDA data download repository : Available here
To view the web map services user guide, please follow the link : Web map services user guide
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