Variations and changes in snow depth at meteorological stations Barentsburg and Hornsund (Spitsbergen)

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Marzena Osuch, Tomasz Wawrzyniak
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; climate change; snow accumulation; snow depth; Spitsbergen; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Hornsund; Barentsburg; Annals of Glaciology; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2017.20; https://doaj.org/article/0ea4d05ac1bd4d9ca9b5b73c9e963ce3

In this study, seasonality and interannual variability of snow depth at two stations (Hornsund and Barentsburg) located in western Spitsbergen are investigated. For this purpose, the novel Moving Average over Shifting Horizon method combined with trend estimation was used. The Hornsund and Barentsbu...