Automatic weather station data from the debris-covered Kennicott Glacier, Alaska (May-Aug 2019) ...

Data from an automatic weather station installed on the debris-covered Kennicott Glacier in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska, USA, spanning most of the 2019 ablation season (28 May - 22 August 2019). Brief description of the uploaded datasets: KEN_2019_60.csv: Hourly aggregated measureme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pascal Buri, Martin Truffer, Javier Fochesatto, Andy Aschwanden
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2022
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6424157
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6424157
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Summary:Data from an automatic weather station installed on the debris-covered Kennicott Glacier in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska, USA, spanning most of the 2019 ablation season (28 May - 22 August 2019). Brief description of the uploaded datasets: KEN_2019_60.csv: Hourly aggregated measurements of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, incoming and reflected shortwave radiation, incoming and outgoing longwave radiation and precipitation KEN_2019_AWS_Metadata.pdf: Metedata file describing the station location, sensor setup and measurements KEN_2019_debris.csv: Debris properties assumed to be potentially applicable for this site (not measured but taken from literature) KEN_2019_VAL_debristemperature.csv: Hourly time series of temperature measurements at known depths within the debris cover close to the station location KEN_2019_VAL_subdebrismelt.csv: Monthly stake measurements of surface height change (sub-debris ice melt) close to the station location ... : We greatly acknowledge logistical support from Michael Loso and the staff from the National Park Service, Copper Center, AK, USA. ...