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International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958: Drifting Station Alpha Documentary Film, Version 1

Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

This film documents the activities that occurred on Drifting Station Alpha in the Arctic Ocean during the International Geophysical Year, 1957 to 1958. The film is narrated by project leader, Norbert Untersteiner, and chronicles the life of the team as they built their camp and set up experiments. Station Alpha drifted in an area of the Arctic ocean located 500 km north of Barrow, Alaska USA from April 1957 to November 1958; the film covers this entire time period. The file is available for download in .mp4 format via FTP.

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Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from nasa test json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
Publisher NSIDC
Maintainer
Identifier C1386246274-NSIDCV0
Data First Published 1957-04-01
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 15a5ea9e-47d2-4980-a89f-dd2ccc313ba1
Harvest Source Id a73e0c30-4684-40ef-908e-d22e9e9e5f86
Harvest Source Title nasa test json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7265/N5MK69TW
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial 110.0 80.0 180.0 87.0
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 3c5c10506d8ed61725708d037d43219519d5bf485a00247657af9dfa365bc364
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1957-04-01T00:00:00Z/1958-11-30T23:59:59.999Z

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