In:
Earth System Science Data, Copernicus GmbH, Vol. 14, No. 5 ( 2022-06-01), p. 2487-2500
Abstract:
Abstract. The warming of the Arctic climate is well documented, but the
mechanisms of Arctic amplification are still not fully understood. Thus,
monitoring of glaciological and meteorological variables and the
environmental response to accelerated climate warming must be continued and
developed in Svalbard. Long-term meteorological observations carried out in
situ on glaciers in conjunction with glaciological monitoring are rare in
the Arctic and significantly expand our knowledge about processes in the
polar environment. This study presents glaciological and meteorological data
collected for 2009–2020 in southern Spitsbergen (Werenskioldbreen). The
meteorological data are composed of air temperature, relative humidity,
wind speed, short-wave and long-wave upwelling and downwelling radiation on 10 min, hourly and daily resolution (2009–2020). The snow dataset includes
49 data records from 2009 to 2019 with the snow depth, snow bulk density and
snow water equivalent data. The glaciological data consist of seasonal
and annual surface mass balance measurements (point and glacier-wide) for
2009–2020. The paper also includes modelling of the daily glacier surface
ablation (2009–2020) based on the presented data. The datasets are expected
to serve as local forcing data in hydrological and glaciological models as well as
validation of calibration of remote sensing products. The datasets are
available from the Polish Polar Database (https://ppdb.us.edu.pl/, last access: 24 May 2022) and
Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6528321, Ignatiuk,
2021a; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5792168, Ignatiuk,
2021b).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1866-3516
DOI:
10.5194/essd-14-2487-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Copernicus GmbH
Publication Date:
2022
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2475469-9
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