HR: 1340h
AN: PP33C-1603    [Abstracts]
TI: Ice Core Dating Software for Interactive Dating of Ice Cores
AU: * Kurbatov, A V
EM: akurbatov@maine.edu
AF: Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, 303 Bryand Global Sciences Bld., Orono, ME 04469 United States
AU: Mayewski, P A
EM: paul.mayewski@maine.edu
AF: Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, 303 Bryand Global Sciences Bld., Orono, ME 04469 United States
AU: Abdul Jawad, B S
EM: BashaR_Abdul@umit.maine.edu
AF: Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 237 Neville Hall, Orono, ME 04469 United States
AB: Scientists involved in ice core dating are well familiar with the problem of identification and recording the depth of annual signals using stable isotopes, glaciochemistry, ECM (electrical conductivity), DEP (dielectric properties) and particle counter data. Traditionally all parameters used for ice core dating were plotted as a function of depth, printed and after years were marked on the paper, converted to depth vs. age time scale. To expedite this tedious and manual process we developed interactive computer software, Ice core Dating (ICD) program. ICD is written in Java programming language, and uses GPL and GPL site licensed graphic libraries. The same 3.5 Mb in size pre-compiled single jar file, that includes all libraries and application code, was successfully tested on WinOS, Mac OSX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems running Java VM version 1.4. We have followed the modular design philosophy in our source code so potential integration with other software modules, data bases and server side distributed computer environments can be easily implemented. We expect to continue development of new suites of tools for easy integration of ice core data with other available time proxies. ICD is thoroughly documented and comes with a technical reference and cookbook that explains the purpose of the software and its many features, and provides examples to help new users quickly become familiar with the operation and philosophy of the software. ICD is available as a free download from the Climate Change Institute web site ( under the terms of GNU GPL public license.
UR: http://www.climatechange.umaine.edu
DE: 0335 Ion chemistry of the atmosphere (2419, 2427)
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
SC: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology [PP]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005