Drifting-snow statistics from multiple-year autonomous measurements in Adélie Land, East Antarctica
Drifting snow is a widespread feature over the Antarctic ice sheet, whose climatological and hydrological significance at the continental scale have been consequently investigated through modelling and satellite approaches. While field measurements are needed to evaluate and interpret model and sate...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:74f357c6214b4b64ab88e9567cd38d90 2023-05-15T13:41:36+02:00 Drifting-snow statistics from multiple-year autonomous measurements in Adélie Land, East Antarctica C. Amory 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1713-2020 https://doaj.org/article/74f357c6214b4b64ab88e9567cd38d90 EN eng Copernicus Publications https://www.the-cryosphere.net/14/1713/2020/tc-14-1713-2020.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1994-0416 https://doaj.org/toc/1994-0424 doi:10.5194/tc-14-1713-2020 1994-0416 1994-0424 https://doaj.org/article/74f357c6214b4b64ab88e9567cd38d90 The Cryosphere, Vol 14, Pp 1713-1725 (2020) Environmental sciences GE1-350 Geology QE1-996.5 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1713-2020 2022-12-31T09:04:02Z Drifting snow is a widespread feature over the Antarctic ice sheet, whose climatological and hydrological significance at the continental scale have been consequently investigated through modelling and satellite approaches. While field measurements are needed to evaluate and interpret model and satellite products, most drifting-snow observation campaigns in Antarctica involved data collected at a single location and over short time periods. With the aim of acquiring new data relevant to the observation and modelling of drifting snow in Antarctic conditions, two remote locations in coastal Adélie Land (East Antarctica) that are 100 km apart were instrumented in January 2010 with meteorological and second-generation IAV Engineering acoustic FlowCapt™ sensors. The data, provided nearly continuously so far, constitute the longest dataset of autonomous near-surface (i.e. within 2 m) measurements of drifting snow currently available over the Antarctic continent. This paper presents an assessment of drifting-snow occurrences and snow mass transport from up to 9 years (2010–2018) of half-hourly observational records collected in one of the Antarctic regions most prone to snow transport by wind. The dataset is freely available to the scientific community and can be used to complement satellite products and evaluate snow-transport models close to the surface and at high temporal frequency. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Ice Sheet The Cryosphere Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic East Antarctica The Antarctic The Cryosphere 14 5 1713 1725 |
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Drifting snow is a widespread feature over the Antarctic ice sheet, whose climatological and hydrological significance at the continental scale have been consequently investigated through modelling and satellite approaches. While field measurements are needed to evaluate and interpret model and satellite products, most drifting-snow observation campaigns in Antarctica involved data collected at a single location and over short time periods. With the aim of acquiring new data relevant to the observation and modelling of drifting snow in Antarctic conditions, two remote locations in coastal Adélie Land (East Antarctica) that are 100 km apart were instrumented in January 2010 with meteorological and second-generation IAV Engineering acoustic FlowCapt™ sensors. The data, provided nearly continuously so far, constitute the longest dataset of autonomous near-surface (i.e. within 2 m) measurements of drifting snow currently available over the Antarctic continent. This paper presents an assessment of drifting-snow occurrences and snow mass transport from up to 9 years (2010–2018) of half-hourly observational records collected in one of the Antarctic regions most prone to snow transport by wind. The dataset is freely available to the scientific community and can be used to complement satellite products and evaluate snow-transport models close to the surface and at high temporal frequency. |
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Drifting-snow statistics from multiple-year autonomous measurements in Adélie Land, East Antarctica |
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