Meteorological conditions on an Arctic ice cap—8 years of automatic weather station data from Austfonna, Svalbard

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Authors: Schuler, Thomas V., Dunse, Thorben, Østby, Torbjørn I., Hagen, Jon O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Austfonna; Svalbard; albedo; glacier; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.3821; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjoc.3821; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.3821

Only few reliable records are available covering more than 5 years of meteorological conditions on Arctic glaciers. Here, we report on the operation of an automatic weather station at the Austfonna ice cap, Svalbard, over an 8‐year period from 2004 to 2012. Time series of measured and derived quanti...