High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013 - 2015 ...

• Main Authors: König-Langlo, Gert, Raffel, Bonnie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Monitoring station; Neumayer_based; NEUMAYER III; Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI AWI_Meteo; Neumayer; Neumayer Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.150031; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150031

At Neumayer-Station in Antarctica snow height is permanently monitored with a laser distance meter. The instrument measures continuously since 2013-01-01 and is located in the vicinity of the Air Chemical Observatory Neumayer. By design, the sample area of the surface is on the order of a few millimetre in diameter. Long-term trends of the measured snow height are strongly correlated with accumulation on the ice shelf at a horizontal scale of several kilometres. Short-term trends reflect dynamic changes of the surface and can be used to deduce information on surface roughness. ...