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

Antarctica is a continent with a strong character. High wind speeds, very low temperatures and heavy snow storms. All these parameters are well known due to observations and measurements, but precipitation measurements are still rare because the number of manned stations is very limited in Antarctic...

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Main Authors: Raffel, Bonnie, König-Langlo, Gert
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2014
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SHM
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283
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spelling ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.831283 2023-05-15T13:49:51+02:00 High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013 Raffel, Bonnie König-Langlo, Gert LATITUDE: -70.689320 * LONGITUDE: -8.270970 * DATE/TIME START: 2013-01-01T00:00:27 * DATE/TIME END: 2013-12-27T09:36:47 * MINIMUM ELEVATION: 42.0 m * MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 42.0 m 2014-03-31 text/tab-separated-values, 1262193 data points https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283 en eng PANGAEA https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven Supplement to: Raffel, Bonnie (2014): Investigation of high resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctia, 2013. 13 pp, hdl:10013/epic.43340.d001 AWI_Meteo AWI_stations AWI Antarctic Land Expedition DATE/TIME Ekström Ice Shelf Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI Monitoring station MONS SHM Signal strength Snow height Snow Height Sensor Jenoptik SHM 30 Dataset 2014 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283 2023-01-20T09:03:12Z Antarctica is a continent with a strong character. High wind speeds, very low temperatures and heavy snow storms. All these parameters are well known due to observations and measurements, but precipitation measurements are still rare because the number of manned stations is very limited in Antarctica. In such a polar snow region many wind driven phenomena associated with snow fall exist like snow drift, blowing snow or sastrugi. Snow drift is defined as a layer of snow formed by the wind during a snowstorm. The horizontal visibility is below eye level. Blowing snow is specified as an ensemble of snow particles raised by the wind to moderate or great heights above the ground; the horizontal visibility at eye level is generally very poor (National Snow And Ice Data Center (NSIDC), 2013). Sastrugi are complex, fragile and sharp ridges or grooves formed on land or over sea ice. They arise from wind erosion, saltation of snow particles and deposition. To get more details about these procedures better instruments than the conventional stake array are required. This small report introduces a new measuring technique and therefore offers a never used dataset of snow heights. It is very common to measure the snow height with a stake array in Antarctica (f.e. Neumayer Station, Kohnen Station) but not with a laser beam. Thus the idea was born to install a new instrument in December 2012 at Neumayer Station. Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Shelf National Snow and Ice Data Center Sea ice PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science Antarctic Ekström Ice Shelf ENVELOPE(-8.000,-8.000,-71.000,-71.000) Kohnen ENVELOPE(0.000,0.000,-75.000,-75.000) Kohnen Station ENVELOPE(0.000,0.000,-75.000,-75.000) Neumayer Neumayer Station Sastrugi ENVELOPE(163.683,163.683,-74.617,-74.617) ENVELOPE(-8.270970,-8.270970,-70.689320,-70.689320)
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AWI_stations
AWI Antarctic Land Expedition
DATE/TIME
Ekström Ice Shelf
Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI
Monitoring station
MONS
SHM
Signal strength
Snow height
Snow Height Sensor
Jenoptik
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AWI_stations
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Ekström Ice Shelf
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MONS
SHM
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Snow height
Snow Height Sensor
Jenoptik
SHM 30
Raffel, Bonnie
König-Langlo, Gert
High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013
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AWI Antarctic Land Expedition
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Ekström Ice Shelf
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Snow Height Sensor
Jenoptik
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description Antarctica is a continent with a strong character. High wind speeds, very low temperatures and heavy snow storms. All these parameters are well known due to observations and measurements, but precipitation measurements are still rare because the number of manned stations is very limited in Antarctica. In such a polar snow region many wind driven phenomena associated with snow fall exist like snow drift, blowing snow or sastrugi. Snow drift is defined as a layer of snow formed by the wind during a snowstorm. The horizontal visibility is below eye level. Blowing snow is specified as an ensemble of snow particles raised by the wind to moderate or great heights above the ground; the horizontal visibility at eye level is generally very poor (National Snow And Ice Data Center (NSIDC), 2013). Sastrugi are complex, fragile and sharp ridges or grooves formed on land or over sea ice. They arise from wind erosion, saltation of snow particles and deposition. To get more details about these procedures better instruments than the conventional stake array are required. This small report introduces a new measuring technique and therefore offers a never used dataset of snow heights. It is very common to measure the snow height with a stake array in Antarctica (f.e. Neumayer Station, Kohnen Station) but not with a laser beam. Thus the idea was born to install a new instrument in December 2012 at Neumayer Station.
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author Raffel, Bonnie
König-Langlo, Gert
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title High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013
title_short High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013
title_full High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013
title_fullStr High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013
title_full_unstemmed High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2013
title_sort high resolved snow height measurements at neumayer station, antarctica, 2013
publisher PANGAEA
publishDate 2014
url https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831283
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op_source Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Supplement to: Raffel, Bonnie (2014): Investigation of high resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctia, 2013. 13 pp, hdl:10013/epic.43340.d001
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