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Automatic Weather Station Data from the Vestfonna Ice Cap

SND-ID: ECDS 0159

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Ulf Jonsell - Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

Description

During IPY4-Kinnvika an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) was installed on the western margin of the Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard by a group from the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. The record includes data from 1 May 2007 – 30 April 2009 on air temperature, relative humidity, 4-component radiation, wind speed, wind direction and inclination (tilt) of the radiation instrument arm. Data are hourly means (2-hourly August 2007-April 2008, due to limited storage capacity) of readings every minute. Minor gaps exist in the record. Temperature sensors are unventilated.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Uppsala University

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time Method

Time period(s) investigated

2007-04-22 – 2009-05-01

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Lowest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords

Research area

Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

atmosphere, meteorology, cryosphere, ablation zones/accumulation zones, glaciers, ice sheets, ablation zones, ice sheets, accumulation zones

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Dataset
Automatic Weather Station Data from the Vestfonna Ice Cap

Description

During IPY4-Kinnvika an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) was installed on the western margin of the Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard by a group from the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. The record includes data from 1 May 2007 – 30 April 2009 on air temperature, relative humidity, 4-component radiation, wind speed, wind direction and inclination (tilt) of the radiation instrument arm. Data are hourly means (2-hourly August 2007-April 2008, due to limited storage capacity) of r

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Version 1.0

2017-05-12
https://doi.org/10.5879/ggjr-7k44

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Citation

Ulf Jonsell. Uppsala University (2017). Automatic Weather Station Data from the Vestfonna Ice Cap. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5879/ggjr-7k44

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Ulf Jonsell - Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

Time period(s) investigated

2007-05-01 – 2009-04-30

Collection methodology

Physical measurements

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published: 2017-08-30
Last updated: 2020-02-13