A decade of glaciological and meteorological observations in the Arctic (Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard)
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. L...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:essd100436 2023-05-15T14:49:23+02:00 A decade of glaciological and meteorological observations in the Arctic (Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard) Ignatiuk, Dariusz Błaszczyk, Małgorzata Budzik, Tomasz Grabiec, Mariusz Jania, Jacek A. Kondracka, Marta Laska, Michał Małarzewski, Łukasz Stachnik, Łukasz 2022-06-01 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2487-2022 https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/2487/2022/ eng eng doi:10.5194/essd-14-2487-2022 https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/2487/2022/ eISSN: 1866-3516 Text 2022 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2487-2022 2022-06-06T16:22:43Z 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). Text Arctic glacier Svalbard Spitsbergen Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Arctic Svalbard Werenskioldbreen ENVELOPE(15.336,15.336,77.077,77.077) Earth System Science Data 14 5 2487 2500 |
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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). |
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Ignatiuk, Dariusz Błaszczyk, Małgorzata Budzik, Tomasz Grabiec, Mariusz Jania, Jacek A. Kondracka, Marta Laska, Michał Małarzewski, Łukasz Stachnik, Łukasz |
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Ignatiuk, Dariusz Błaszczyk, Małgorzata Budzik, Tomasz Grabiec, Mariusz Jania, Jacek A. Kondracka, Marta Laska, Michał Małarzewski, Łukasz Stachnik, Łukasz A decade of glaciological and meteorological observations in the Arctic (Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard) |
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A decade of glaciological and meteorological observations in the Arctic (Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard) |
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A decade of glaciological and meteorological observations in the Arctic (Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard) |
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