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

• Main Authors: Schmithüsen, Holger, Müller, Hanno
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: AWI_Meteo; DATE/TIME; Ekström Ice Shelf; Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI; Monitoring station; MONS; Neumayer_based; NEUMAYER III; SHM; Signal strength; Snow height; Snow Height Sensor; Jenoptik; SHM 30; SN 110996; Temperature; technical; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.900622; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.900622

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.