Glacier mass balance measurements on Fourcade and Polar Club glacier, King George Island

• Main Authors: Falk, Ulrike, López, Damián, Sala, Hernán
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Automatic weather station; AWS; Calculated; DATE/TIME; IMCOAST/IMCONet; Impact of climate induced glacier melt on marine coastal systems; Antarctica; King George Island; Antarctic Peninsula; Length; difference; Melt rate in water equivalent per day; Warszawa_Icefield_AWS; Antarctic; Argentino; Austral; Fourcade; Fourcade Glacier; Pacific; Polar Club Glacier; Ross Archipelago; South Shetland Islands; Vega Island; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.854454; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854454

The east coast of the AP is highly influenced by cold and dry air masses stemming from the adjacent Weddell Sea. By the contrary, the west coast jointly with the South Shetland Islands are directly exposed to the humid and relatively warm air masses from the South Pacific Ocean carried by the strong...