Calving data from a lacustrine margin of Russell Glacier, west Greenland between July 2014 and September 2015
A record of subaerial calving activity at a lacustrine margin of Russell Glacier, west Greenland, comprising 290 calving events classified by volume, area and calving mechanism. Data were acquired continuously from July 2014 to September 2015 using an array of time-lapse cameras. Imagery from the cameras was employed to generate a time-series of ice-margin point clouds, which were then differenced to determine calving properties. The dataset is designed to facilitate the analysis of seasonality in lacustrine calving processes. Supplementary point clouds were also generated to investigate the effects of two lake drainage events on calving processes in the summers of 2014 and 2015. Point cloud parameters and a record of lake stage are also included. The dataset was collected and processed by researchers in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds.
Funding was provided by Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Research Trust (project number 474), The Mount Everest Foundation, The Gilchrist Educational Trust, and Sigma Xi.
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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01314
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-04-14
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01314
- 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 > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Calving
- Greenland ice sheet
- Russell Glacier
- ice-marginal lake
- Use limitation
- Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Inland waters
- Begin date
- 2014-06-27
- End date
- 2015-09-20
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- Point cloud quality varies throughout the survey due to the nature of the time-lapse camera setup. Please see the dataset for parameters of individual point clouds, including: georeferencing RMSE; point cloud size; point cloud density; number of ground control points; and number of aligned cameras. Variability in the sampling interval between successive clouds was due to inclement weather conditions.
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01314 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-04-14
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0