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

• Main Authors: Lora Koenig, Lynn Montgomery
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
• Subjects: density; accumulation; snow depth; sea ice; Greenland; Antarctica; surface mass balance; Antarctic; Arctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:62b97ba5-1b0c-44c4-bdc9-b4d502cb466e

Increasing atmospheric temperatures over ice cover affects surface processes including melt, snowfall and snow density. Here, we present a comprehensive database of Arctic and Antarctic surface mass-balance observations of density, accumulation, and snow depth on sea ice over a 60 year time period....