Physical features of the snowpack - Spitsbergen
Dataset contains detailed measurements of physical features of seasonal snow cover, according to International Classification of Seasonal Snow on the Ground (Fierz et al. 2009). Fieldwork has been done during peak of accumulation on several glaciers in the region of Hornsund, Svalbard:
Amundsenisen (2013)
Hansbreen (three sites; 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018)
Werenskioldbreen (two sites; 2013, 2015)
Nannbreen (2013)
Ariebreen (2014)
Acknowledgements: Research Council of Norway, Arctic Field Grant 2013: Spatial distribution of snow cover and drainage systems on the glaciers on Wedel Jarlsberg Land (RiS ID: 6158); the National Science Centre PRELUDIUM 4: Role of meltwater from snow cover for supplying drainage systems of the Spitsbergen glaciers (2012/07/N/ST10/03784)
References:
Laska M., Luks B., Budzik T., 2016. Influence of snowpack internal structure on snow metamorphism and melting intensity on Hansbreen, Svalbard. Polish Polar Research, 37(2): 193–218. doi:10.1515/popore-2016-0012
Laska M., Grabiec M., Ignatiuk D., Budzik T., 2017. Snow deposition patterns on southern Spitsbergen glaciers, Svalbard, in relation to recent meteorological conditions and local topography. Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography, 99(3): 262–287
doi:10.1080/04353676.2017.1327321
Laska M., Barzycka B., Luks B., 2017. Melting Characteristics of Snow Cover on Tidewater Glaciers in Hornsund Fjord, Svalbard. Water, 9(10), 804. doi:10.3390/w9100804
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Identification
Data identification
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-12
- Purpose
- scientific and didactic
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Theme
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- snow cover, snow pits, snow analyses, snow physics
- Place
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- Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Arctic, Norway
Legal constraints
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2010-01-01
- End date
- 2018-12-31
Distribution
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Snow pits_data overwiev
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Description of available data
- OnLine resource
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Extended human readable information about the dataset
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Extended human readable information about the dataset
Quality
Data quality
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Ref. system
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
Metadata
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8c7f8676-c9d9-4493-8f45-fbe4a25f849b XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2020-12-09T11:47:15
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0