Proglacial discharge measurements, Leverett Glacier, south-west Greenland
Measurements of water discharge, suspended sediment concentration and electrical conductivity during the melt seasons of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 in the proglacial river draining from the tongue of Leverett Glacier, a land-terminating glacier in the south-west of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The measurements were made in a stable bedrock section approximately 2 km downstream from the glacier terminus. Data loggers recorded measurements every 15 minutes from approximately May to August each year. Water depth (stage) was converted to discharge (Q) using season-specific ratings curves derived from repeat dye-dilution injections undertaken across the stage values. Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) was obtained by calibrating turbidity sensor readings with sediment samples taken in-situ and then filtered, dried and weighed. Electrical conductivity (EC) was recorded using a water conductivity probe; the data were filtered for bad values and corrected for temperature, but no smoothing was applied.
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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00840
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-01-29
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00840
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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 > Ablation Zones/Accumulation Zones
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Discharge/Flow
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Surface Water Chemistry
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Greenland
- discharge
- electrical conductivity
- proglacial
- suspended sediment
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- 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/
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- 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/
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- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Inland waters
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- Begin date
- 2009
- End date
- 2012
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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- http
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- GET DATA
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- download Download
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- dataset Dataset
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- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
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- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
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- No special comments
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- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00840 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-01-29
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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