In situ measurements of snow accumulation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during 2016

• Main Author: Johnson, Joanne
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK 2018
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIERS"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","ICE SHEETS"; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; Haynes Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3fe799e0-97ec-4b01-b6df-325b8b31baac; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01057

This dataset contains measurements of snow accumulation over an 11-month period in 2016 at six sites in the Pine Island-Thwaites Glacier catchment of West Antarctica. The sites were visited on two occasions, the first in January 2016 and the second in December 2016. The accumulation rate at each sit...