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Dataset from iWS 18 in Cabinet Inlet, Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2014-2017 - VERSION 2.0

The data consists of 30 minute observations recorded by an automatic weather station (iWS 18) in Cabinet Inlet on Larsen C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The iWS consists of a custom-built weather station unit, assembled at the Institute of Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU). There are sensors for air temperature, surface air pressure, relative humidity, as well as a GPS, an acoustic snow height sensor, an ARGOS communication antenna, and three Lithium batteries that fuel the unit when solar radiation is absent. The unit is complemented by a propeller-vane Young anemometer measuring wind direction and speed. Additionally, all radiation fluxes are measured with a Kipp and Zonen CNR4 radiometer. This dataset runs from 25 November 2014 to 13 November 2017.

Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/L005409/1.

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01324
Date (Publication)
2020-05-12
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01324
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation - Bevan, Suzanne;Kuipers Munneke, Peter;Luckman, Adrian;Smeets, Paul;van den Broeke, Michiel
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Surface Pressure
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Humidity
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Climate Indicators > Air Temperature Indices
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Climate Indicators > Humidity Indices
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Automatic weather station
  • Larsen C Ice Shelf
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 v3 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 v3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
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Begin date
2014-11-25
End date
2017-11-13
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-3-155-2009
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Date
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement

A number of corrections and adjustments to the raw data were applied for this dataset. For further details see Elvidge et al. (2020).

1) The temperature sensor is not artificially ventilated. This leads to a positive bias in temperature measurements under conditions of high insolation and low wind speed. Simultaneous observations from a thin-wire thermocouple provided a correction procedure, detailed in Smeets et al. (2018).

2) The relative humidity sensor is placed within the unit and experiences elevated temperature under sunny conditions. Internally-observed temperature of the sensor allows the calculation of a dew point, which gives a relative humidity for the observed air temperature. Next, relative humidity is corrected for observations over ice rather than over water. And finally, a well-known underestimation of RH-observations at low temperatures is corrected for by fitting a polynomial through the upper percentile of data and define that polynomial as a RH of 100%. Relative humidity can sometimes greatly exceed 100%, especially in very cold conditions. It is unknown if this is a sensor characteristic or real supersaturation. If required, RH can be capped at 100% without a large error in the corresponding absolute, specific humidity.

3) Longwave radiation observations are corrected for the internal instrument temperature, and for window heating under high insolation conditions.

4) Acoustic snow height observations are corrected for the dependency of sound propagation on air temperature.

5) A few small data 30- to 60-minute data gaps were filled by linear interpolation.

File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01324 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-05-12
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01324
 
 

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