Detailed water quality parameters, including methane concentrations and isotopic composition, for groundwater springs discharging from open system pingos in Adventdalen, Svalbard (2014-2017)

• Main Author: Hodson, Andrew
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation 2020
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","FROZEN GROUND","PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","FROZEN GROUND","PERMAFROST"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","SNOW/ICE","PERMAFROST"; "EARTH SCIENCE","TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE","GROUND WATER","GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY"; "EARTH SCIENCE","TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE","SNOW/ICE","PERMAFROST"; "EARTH SCIENCE","TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE","WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY"; Svalbard; methane; permafrost; pingos; water quality; Arctic; Sheffield; Dee; Fid; Adventdalen; glacier; Ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3d82fd3f-884b-47b6-b11c-6c96d66b950d; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01288

Adventdalen is a medium-sized (513 km^2) catchment in continuous permafrost zone of central Spitsbergen. It has 11.7 % glacier cover, a large flat valley floor comprised of uplifted, glaciomarine sediments, covered in the lower part by a veneer of aeolian sediments up to 4 m thick. The geology of th...