High resolved snow height measurements at Neumayer Station, Antarctica, 2021

• Main Authors: Schmithüsen, Holger, Jörss, Anna-Marie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• 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 172241; Temperature; technical; Antarctic; Neumayer; Neumayer Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.946477; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946477

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.