Surface Mass Balance and Snow Depth on Sea Ice Working Group (SUMup) snow depth on sea ice subdataset

This dataset includes snow depth on sea ice measurements from both hemispheres. This dataset is a community effort to distribute easy to use in-situ data to improve surface mass balance modeling and remote sensing efforts. This dataset is a compilation of work from many individual researchers. When...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lora Koenig, Lynn Montgomery
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
Subjects:
Greenland
Antarctica
Snow Depth
Sea Ice
Arctic
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Bellingshausen Sea
Antarc*
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18739/A2W22P
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Summary:This dataset includes snow depth on sea ice measurements from both hemispheres. This dataset is a community effort to distribute easy to use in-situ data to improve surface mass balance modeling and remote sensing efforts. This dataset is a compilation of work from many individual researchers. When using this dataset please cite both the individual researchers who provided the data as listed in the Citation field as well as this dataset. The ~14,000 measurements of snow depth on sea ice are from 7 locations off the Antarctic Peninsula in the Bellingshausen sea and ~40 locations directly off the coast of Finland in the Baltic sea. The Arctic represents 78% of the measurements and the Antarctic represents the remaining 22%. The measurement methods include rulers and magnaprobes.

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