PROMICE automatic weather station data

• Main Authors: Fausto, Robert S., As, Dirk, Mankoff, Kenneth D., Vandecrux, Baptiste, Citterio, Michele, Ahlstrøm, Andreas P., Andersen, Signe B., Colgan, Wlliam, Karlsson, Nanna B., Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Korsgaard, Niels J., Larsen, Signe H., Nielsen, Søren, Pedersen, Allan Ø., Shields, Christopher L., Solgaard, Anne M., Box, Jason E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-80; https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-80/

The Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) has been measuring climate and ice sheet properties since 2007. Currently the PROMICE automatic weather station network includes 25 instrumented sites in Greenland. Accurate measurements of the surface and near-surface atmospheric conditions in a changing climate is important for reliable present and future assessment of changes to the Greenland ice sheet. Here we present the PROMICE vision, methodology, and each link in the production chain for obtaining and sharing quality-checked data. In this paper we mainly focus on the critical components for calculating the surface energy balance and surface mass balance. A user-contributable dynamic webbased database of known data quality issues is associated with the data products at ( https://github.com/GEUS-PROMICE/ PROMICE-AWS-data-issues/ ). As part of the living data option, the datasets presented and described here are available at DOI:10.22008/promice/data/aws, https://doi.org/10.22008/promice/data/aws (Fausto and van As, 2019).