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Runoff and basic water quality parameters at Adventdalen, Svalbard (2015-2016)
Adventdalen is a medium-sized (513 km2) catchment in continuous permafrost zone of central Spitsbergen. It is an important study area, but the river is highly unsuitable for monitoring runoff on account of the high sediment yield and extremely unstable channel sections in the large delta. This necessitates the estimation of runoff volume through the application of a suitable model. Daily runoff was therefore simulated using daily precipitation and temperature data series (1991-2016) and the HBV model. Daily water temperature and electrical conductivity were also monitored at the point of interest to provide basic water quality parameters alongside the runoff quantity data.
Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M019829/1.
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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01139
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-03-22
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01139
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Frozen Ground > Permafrost
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Permafrost
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Permafrost
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Runoff
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Surface Water Chemistry
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Conductivity
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality/Water Chemistry > Water Temperature
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Arctic
- Conductivity
- HBV model
- Runoff
- Svalbard
- Temperature
- Use limitation
- This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2015-01-01
- End date
- 2016-12-31
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- http://lowperm.group.shef.ac.uk/
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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The calibration of De Geerdalen resulted in a Reff = 0.8454(Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency equation) with a mean difference between the observed and simulated discharge of -17 mm/year. The results of the De Geerdalen GAP optimisation can be found in the README file.
Note: there is more uncertainty over the winter rainfall events, whose impact were very marked in 2016. Therefore runoff data are included as two series, one with and one without runoff during the winter season.
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01139 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2019-03-22
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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