Snow cover – Hornsund glaciers (map)

Snow depth data series contain records obtained by high frequency GPR on selected glaciers of Hornsund area (S Svalbard) since 2008. Currently the largest collection regards Hansbreen. Data for other glaciers are successively appended. The GPR survey on Hansbreen is regularly carried out approximately along the same tracks. Due to dynamically changing glacier surface topography influencing different survey abilities the some parts of profiles are modified in consecutive seasons. The total distance of Hansbreen profiles are as follows (Fig.1): 63.9 km (2008), 117,5 km (2011), 105,1 km (2013), 103,9 km (2014), 98,5 km (2015), 91,1 km (2016), 101,0 km (2017) and 108,4 km (2018).

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Additional Info

Field Value
Name of data centre PPDB
Name of data collection
Dataset type
  • Maps/Charts/Photographs
GCMD tags
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW COVER
ISO Category
  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Releated datasets Snow cover – Hornsund glaciers
Access restrictions OpenAccess
Start date 2008-01-01
End date 2017-12-31
Instrument high frequency GPR
Description of equipment and position
Name of coordinate system for dataset, EPSG EPSG:32633 - WGS 84 / UTM zone 33N
Author name
  1. Mariusz Grabiec
  2. Paweł Kowalski
Author email
  1. mariusz.grabiec@us.edu.pl
  2. pawel.kowalski@pw.edu.pl
Name of metadata editor Paweł Kowalski [wyszukaj w katalogu]
Email metadata editor pawel.kowalski@pw.edu.pl
Date of metadata edit 2025-02-19
Dataset version 1
Source
Releated publications
Releated analyses
Dataset DOI
Name of data centre contact Łukasz Malarzewski
Data centre contact email lukasz.malarzewski@us.edu.pl