High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2012

At Neumayer-Station in Antarctica snow height is permanently monitored with a laser distance meter. From 2011-10-11 until 2012-12-30 the instrument was installed on a tentative mast in the vicinity of the Air Chemical Observatory Neumayer. By design, the sample area of the surface is on the order of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmithüsen, Holger
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2021
Subjects:
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
SN 90463
Temperature
technical
Antarctic
Neumayer
Neumayer Station
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Shelf
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.936113
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936113
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Summary:At Neumayer-Station in Antarctica snow height is permanently monitored with a laser distance meter. From 2011-10-11 until 2012-12-30 the instrument was installed on a tentative mast 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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