Italian Antarctic Data Center
I-VOLCAN - Geochemical-Thermal Dataset of Mt. Melbourne (Antarctica)
Multidisciplinary dataset acquired within the fumarolic ice caves of Mt. Melbourne (Aurora/MC1, MC3, and MC4). Includes continuous gas concentrations (CO2, H2O, CH4, etc.), soil CO2 fluxes, and high-resolution air/soil temperatures (depths of 20 cm and 60 cm). Data is used to track indicators of volcanic unrest in polar environments.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-04-08T16:15:00
- Identifier
- https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fb76df45-1654-46c0-b827-b4252769fe0f
- Purpose
-
This resource was developed to establish a permanent geochemical and thermal monitoring system for volcanic risk mitigation at Mt. Melbourne and Mt. Rittmann while providing a continuous stream of high-quality data to advance multidisciplinary scientific research in volcanology, subsurface biology, and polar climate modeling.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
-
SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica
-
-
Mount Rittmann
-
Mount Melbourne
-
-
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
-
-
Geology
-
-
GCMD - Science Keywords
-
-
SOLID EARTH
-
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY
-
GEOCHEMISTRY
-
- Keywords
-
-
geochemical data
-
volcanology
-
thermal data
-
-
PNRA project
-
-
I-VOLCAN PNRA0000019
-
-
Research Organization
-
-
Università di Catania
-
INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
-
-
GCMD - Providers
-
-
IT/PNRA
-
- Use limitation
- Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Unique resource identifier
- 39, 40, 41
- Association Type
- dependency
- Initiative Type
- Campaign
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
))
- Begin date
- 2022-11-12
- End date
- 2026-04-06 Now
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS84
- Distribution format
-
-
FORMATO_DISTRIBUZIONE_DATI (ASCII, CSV, NetCDF...)
(
1
)
-
FORMATO_DISTRIBUZIONE_DATI (ASCII, CSV, NetCDF...)
(
1
)
- OnLine resource
- https://www.i-volcan.com/ ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- PNRA project ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- https://www.ct.ingv.it/ivolcan/tsdws/viewTS/?config_name=geochemical&chartWidth=49 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
-
This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
-
Data Origin: Thermal data is recorded by autonomous standalone loggers (Tinytag Gemini for air; Hobo for soil at 20 cm and 60 cm depths). Geochemical data is acquired via an MG2 multiparametric station equipped with NDIR spectrometers for CO2 and electrochemical sensors for other species, alongside a static accumulation chamber prototype for soil CO2 fluxes. These instruments are installed inside protected fumarolic ice caves on Mt. Melbourne.
Acquisition and Transmission: The geochemical station is activated twice per day for approximately 30 minutes each time. Data is transmitted via a 900 MHz radio link using FreeWave ZumLink technology to a receiver at the Mario Zucchelli Station (MZS).
Data Transformation: At MZS, data is managed by a mini PC running Python-based software (DLServer) for buffering and local storage. Raw CO2 concentration variations measured in the accumulation chamber are processed using the RANSAC linear algorithm to calculate soil gas fluxes.
- File identifier
- b56f800b-2b5a-469c-9f08-8065153052b2 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-04-10T02:58:41
- Metadata standard name
-
ISO 19139
- Metadata standard version
-
1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
Provided by
