Observed terminus position and modelled ocean temperature, air temperature and runoff for 10 tidewater glaciers in east Greenland, 1990-2015
The data consists of observed terminus position and modelled ocean temperature, air temperature and runoff for 10 tidewater glaciers in east Greenland, 1990-2015. The glaciers are (listed from south to north) Mogens 3, Tingmjarmiut 1, AP Bernstorffs Glacier, Helheim Glacier, Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, Borggraven, Vestfjord Glacier, Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, Waltershausen Glacier, Heinkel Glacier. Values are given as annual means. Glacier terminus positions are derived directly from remote sensing observations. Ocean temperature is based on the mean 200-400m temperature from GLORYS2V3 1/4 deg ocean reanalysis, obtained from the nearest cell of sufficient depth and adjusted to better agree with available in situ observations. Air temperature is based on the May-September mean of monthly temperatures from European Reanalysis (ERA)-Interim global atmospheric reanalysis, while Q is obtained from a 1-km surface melting, retention, and runoff model forced using ERA-Interim reanalysis. These data were compiled to study the relationship between environmental forcings and tidewater glacier retreat in east Greenland, as published by Cowton et al (2018).
Funding was provided by the NERC grants NE/K015249/1 and NE/K014609/1.
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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01131
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-01-16
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01131
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- 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 Motion/Ice Sheet Motion
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Growth/Melt
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Glaciers
- Greenland
- Ice sheets
- 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/.
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- 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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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1990-01-01
- End date
- 2015-12-31
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
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- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- The time series contain sections of missing data. The air temperature and runoff time series are limited to the duration (1993-2012) of the surface mass balance modelling undertaken by Wilton et al (2017). The ocean temperature time series is capped by the temporal extent (2014) of the GLORYS2V3 ocean reanalysis product on which it is based. The terminus position time series contain numerous gaps in the 1990s, reflecting years during which no optical satellite observations are available.
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01131 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2019-01-16
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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