Svalbard glacier snow lines

Satellite albedo data from MODIS is used to track snow-line on glaciers in Svalbard, with snow-line serving as a proxy for the Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA). Eventually the results will be available as shapefiles. A table with snow lines derived with this method is available and snow line can be p...

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Main Author: Kohler, Jack
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2013
Subjects:
Ela
Online Access:http://data.npolar.no/dataset/5a845750-e924-11e2-b06b-005056ad0004
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spelling npolardata:oai:npolar.no:dataset/5a845750-e924-11e2-b06b-005056ad0004 2024-03-03T22:15:37+00:00 Svalbard glacier snow lines Kohler, Jack BEGINDATE: 2000-01-01 ENDDATE: ENVELOPE(9.0,30.0,81.0,76.0) 2013-07-10 http://data.npolar.no/dataset/5a845750-e924-11e2-b06b-005056ad0004 unknown Norwegian Polar Institute GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION snow line glaciers mass balance Svalbard glaciology EARTH SCIENCE CRYOSPHERE GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS GLACIER FACIES ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE CLIMATE INDICATORS CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS GLACIAL MEASUREMENTS GLACIERS Dataset 2013 npolardata 2017-10-09T19:09:36Z Satellite albedo data from MODIS is used to track snow-line on glaciers in Svalbard, with snow-line serving as a proxy for the Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA). Eventually the results will be available as shapefiles. A table with snow lines derived with this method is available and snow line can be plotted against time Dataset glacier Ice Sheet Svalbard Norwegian Polar Data Centre Ela ENVELOPE(9.642,9.642,63.170,63.170) Svalbard ENVELOPE(9.0,30.0,81.0,76.0)
institution Open Polar
collection Norwegian Polar Data Centre
op_collection_id npolardata
language unknown
topic GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
snow line
glaciers
mass balance
Svalbard
glaciology
EARTH SCIENCE
CRYOSPHERE
GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS
GLACIER FACIES
ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES
GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE
CLIMATE INDICATORS
CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS
GLACIAL MEASUREMENTS
GLACIERS
spellingShingle GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
snow line
glaciers
mass balance
Svalbard
glaciology
EARTH SCIENCE
CRYOSPHERE
GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS
GLACIER FACIES
ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES
GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE
CLIMATE INDICATORS
CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS
GLACIAL MEASUREMENTS
GLACIERS
Kohler, Jack
Svalbard glacier snow lines
topic_facet GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
snow line
glaciers
mass balance
Svalbard
glaciology
EARTH SCIENCE
CRYOSPHERE
GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS
GLACIER FACIES
ABLATION ZONES/ACCUMULATION ZONES
GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE
CLIMATE INDICATORS
CRYOSPHERIC INDICATORS
GLACIAL MEASUREMENTS
GLACIERS
description Satellite albedo data from MODIS is used to track snow-line on glaciers in Svalbard, with snow-line serving as a proxy for the Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA). Eventually the results will be available as shapefiles. A table with snow lines derived with this method is available and snow line can be plotted against time
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author Kohler, Jack
author_facet Kohler, Jack
author_sort Kohler, Jack
title Svalbard glacier snow lines
title_short Svalbard glacier snow lines
title_full Svalbard glacier snow lines
title_fullStr Svalbard glacier snow lines
title_full_unstemmed Svalbard glacier snow lines
title_sort svalbard glacier snow lines
publisher Norwegian Polar Institute
publishDate 2013
url http://data.npolar.no/dataset/5a845750-e924-11e2-b06b-005056ad0004
op_coverage BEGINDATE: 2000-01-01 ENDDATE:
ENVELOPE(9.0,30.0,81.0,76.0)
long_lat ENVELOPE(9.642,9.642,63.170,63.170)
ENVELOPE(9.0,30.0,81.0,76.0)
geographic Ela
Svalbard
geographic_facet Ela
Svalbard
genre glacier
Ice Sheet
Svalbard
genre_facet glacier
Ice Sheet
Svalbard
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