High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013 - 2015

At Neumayer-Station in Antarctica snow height is permanently monitored with a laser distance meter. The instrument measures continuously since 2013-01-01 and is located in the vicinity of the Air Chemical Observatory Neumayer. By design, the sample area of the surface is on the order of a few millim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: König-Langlo, Gert, Raffel, Bonnie
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2017
Subjects:
AWI_Meteo
AWI_stations
AWI Antarctic Land Expedition
Ekström Ice Shelf
Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI
Monitoring station
MONS
SHM
Antarctic
Neumayer
Neumayer Station
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Shelf
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150031
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.150031
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Summary:At Neumayer-Station in Antarctica snow height is permanently monitored with a laser distance meter. The instrument measures continuously since 2013-01-01 and is located in the vicinity of the Air Chemical Observatory Neumayer. By design, the sample area of the surface is on the order of a few millimetre in diameter. Long-term trends of the measured snow height are strongly correlated with accumulation on the ice shelf at a horizontal scale of several kilometres. Short-term trends reflect dynamic changes of the surface and can be used to deduce information on surface roughness.

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