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Annual melt onset, duration and end dates for the Antarctic Peninsula derived from Quikscat and ASCAT scatterometer Enhanced Resolution data, 1999-2017
Surface melt onset, duration and end date for the Antarctic Peninsula from 1999/2000 to 2016/2017 at a spatial resolution of 2 km, derived from scatterometer data. Years 1999/2000 to 2008/09 are based on QSCAT data and 2009/10 to 2016/17 on ASCAT data.
This work was funded by NERC grant NE/L006065/1.
Simple
- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01014
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-01-24
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01014
- 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 > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Growth/Melt
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- ASCAT
- Antarctic Peninsula
- QSCAT
- Surface melt
- 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 v3.0 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 v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1999-01-01
- End date
- 2017-12-01
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- Protocol
- http
- Name
- GET DATA
- Function
- download Download
- 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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Melt was not defined if the winter mean backscatter was greater than -10 dB to avoid calculating melt over noisy backscatter regions such as the Peninsula mountains. ASCAT input data were only available until 21/06/2017 but we assume that this allows all melt within austral year 2016/17 to have been detected.
2 km horizontal resolution based on over sampling of 4.5 km scatterometer data.
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01014 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-01-24
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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