Surface Mass Balance and Snow Depth on Sea Ice Working Group (SUMup) snow density, accumulation on land ice, and snow depth on sea ice datasets 1952-2019 ...

The SUMup dataset contains Arctic and Antarctic surface mass-balance field observations of snow density, accumulation on land ice, and snow depth on sea ice over an ~60 year time period. The goal of this dataset is to create an expandable, standardized dataset of field measurements of surface mass b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thompson-Munson, Megan, Montgomery, Lynn, Lenaerts, Jan, Koenig, Lora
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2022
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a24q7qr58
https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A24Q7QR58
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Summary:The SUMup dataset contains Arctic and Antarctic surface mass-balance field observations of snow density, accumulation on land ice, and snow depth on sea ice over an ~60 year time period. The goal of this dataset is to create an expandable, standardized dataset of field measurements of surface mass balance components that is consistent in format, properly described, and easy for researcher to use. SUMup contains 4 subdatasets of snow density, accumulation on land ice, snow depth on sea ice, and temperature containing a total of over 1,000,000 measurements from a vast number of sites across the polar regions. 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. Each measurement has a corresponding date, latitude, longitude, measurement, method, citation, and additional information as explained in the metadata/readme files. This aggregated, field measurement dataset can, and has been used, to validate current and ...