Hansbreen Snowpit Dataset: a long-term snow monitoring (since 1989) in the unique field laboratory (SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard)

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Analyses of the seasonal snow cover provide basic information on the condition of glaciers, the water cycle and the energy budget in the natural environment. Therefore, they are a valuable source of information for more accurate glacier mass balance estimations, validation of remote sensing products, snowpack evolution and hydrological models. Hansbreen Snowpit Dataset is the largest and longest collection of the snowpit measurements on Svalbard and very few across the entire Arctic. It includes all archived snow profiles performed on Hansbreen (Hans Glacier), Svalbard since 1989, when the glaciological monitoring on this glacier has begun, until 2021. Snowpits were performed at 1 to 3 reference sites, most often once a season, during the maximum snow cover accumulation (April-May), but several were conducted in March, June and September. Physical properties of the snow cover include snow depth, grain shape and size, snow hardness, wetness, temperature and density, or the snow water equivalent at the reference study sites. The entire dataset has been revised and unified to the current protocols and the applicable classification by The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences, making it comparable to different worldwide locations – past, now, and future.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942279
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01767-8
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.942279
Provenance
Creator Laska, Michał ORCID logo; Luks, Bartłomiej (ORCID: 0000-0003-2287-385X); Kępski, Daniel ORCID logo; Gądek, Bogdan ORCID logo; Głowacki, Piotr; Puczko, Dariusz; Migała, Krzysztof ORCID logo; Nawrot, Adam ORCID logo; Pętlicki, Michał
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 28 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (15.443W, 77.010S, 15.663E, 77.480N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1989-03-27T10:40:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-04-23T18:00:00Z