In-situ tempetatures in the top 20 m of firn near the summit of Blåskimen Island, Western Dronning Maud Land

• Main Authors: Goel, Vikram, Matsuoka, Kenichi
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2017
• Subjects: GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION; ice rise; glaciology; EARTH SCIENCE; CRYOSPHERE; SNOW/ICE; SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE; GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS; GLACIERS; Blåskimen; Dronning Maud Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Blåskimen Island
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/3845e964-b2d3-477c-9d16-596d38353082

This dataset contains a depth profile of temperature in top 20 m of firn near the summit of Blåskimen Island, Western Dronning Maud Land. The measurements were made using a thermistor string installed into a borehole. The thermistor was left for ~25 hours in the borehole. The data are provided in MATLAB (.mat) file format named ‘IRD_borehole_temp_dat.mat’ with following arrays- <br> • ‘depth’ array with depth data in meters <br> • ‘time’ array with time data in minutes <br> • ‘temp’ matrix with each column containing temperature measurements with depth at a given time in degree Celsius. See the following manuscript for further details: Goel, V., Brown, J., and Matsuoka, K.: Glaciological settings and recent mass balance of Blåskimen Island in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2017-61, in review, 2017.