High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2018

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: Schmithüsen, Holger, Müller, Hanno
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2019
Subjects:
SHM
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.900622
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.900622
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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.