Ice ablation record from the Greenland Ice Sheet measured in spring/summer 2012

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Surface ablation rates were measured daily using changes in ice surface height at five ablation stakes arranged in a cross configuration at ~2 m separation. The stakes were located in the supraglacial hydrological catchment feeding Moulin L41A. The stakes were installed in holes deeper than the length of the stake (so each measurement of ice surface height was made from the ice surface down to the top of the stake) to avoid the problem of enhanced surface melting caused by solar radiation absorbed by the stake. All ablation measurements were carried out by the same observer to ensure consistency for example in the interpretation of the level of a rough ice surface. A full description was provided by Chandler et al. (2015) at https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-487-2015.

Date of measurement representing ablation from evening of previous day to evening of current day. Times are UTC-3.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926842
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116982
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926841
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926850
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926844
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926843
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.926842
Provenance
Creator Chandler, David M ORCID logo; Wadham, Jemma; Nienow, Peter; Doyle, Samuel H (ORCID: 0000-0002-0853-431X); Tedstone, Andrew (ORCID: 0000-0002-9211-451X); Telling, Jon ORCID logo; Hawkings, Jonathan; Alcock, Jonathan; Linhoff, Benjamin; Hubbard, Alun L ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 148 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-49.270 LON, 66.970 LAT); Greenland ice sheet
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-05-30T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-08-11T00:00:00Z